Austin C Okigbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 222635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austin C Okigbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Okigbo |
| SIGNATURE | OKIGBO A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
South African Music in the History of Epidemics
South Africa is currently considered the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, but it has also witnessed several other disease epidemics in the past, such as smallpox, which plagued the region for nearly two centuries between 1713 and the late nineteenth century, and the 1918 influenza outbreak. This article, which is based on archival and ethnographic study, is a historiography of music in times of epidemics in South Africa. It offers a per…
Media Health Images of Africa and the Politics of Representation
This paper is an ethnomusicological and media studies collaborative study that discusses the politics of representation on media health images, especially HIV/AIDS in Africa, and how a South African AIDS support group and choral ensemble offers a counter-narrative to the images that are seen in the Western media. Using ethnographic data on the group's organization, music events, and interviews with choir members, we argue that Siphithemba Choir's…
Soul Resonance
Book Review| September 01 2013 Soul Resonance: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of Zimbabwean Music Soul Resonance: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of Zimbabwean Music. 2012. Directed and edited by Douglas and Laurel Epps. Narrated by Taj Mahal. DVD, 83 minutes. Sacred Path Explorations; website: www.sacredpathexplorations.com. Austin C. Okigbo Austin C. Okigbo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2013) 57 (3): 561…
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community Marie Jorritsma Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2011. xvii + 201 pp. (hbk) 978-1-43990-237-0 South African c
Performing Blackness in a South African Hiv/Aids Choir
The Siphithemba Choir, an HIV/AIDS support group at the McCord Mission Hospital in Durban, South Africa, uses songs that conflate "Africa" and "Black Race" (abantu abamnyama)or "Black Nation" (Umnyama yezwe) to perform their experience of HIV/AIDS, thus signaling global ethnic/racial consciousness in the context of the HIV/AIDS discourse. This paper argues that the musical referencing of race and ethnicity by this group of HIV-positive South Afri…
Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition
Austin C. Okigbo, Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition, Africa Today, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 42-65
Media Health Images of Africa and the Politics of Representation
This paper is an ethnomusicological and media studies collaborative study that discusses the politics of representation on media health images, especially HIV/AIDS in Africa, and how a South African AIDS support group and choral ensemble offers a counter-narrative to the images that are seen in the Western media. Using ethnographic data on the group's organization, music events, and interviews with choir members, we argue that Siphithemba Choir's…
Performing Blackness in a South African Hiv/Aids Choir
The Siphithemba Choir, an HIV/AIDS support group at the McCord Mission Hospital in Durban, South Africa, uses songs that conflate "Africa" and "Black Race" (abantu abamnyama)or "Black Nation" (Umnyama yezwe) to perform their experience of HIV/AIDS, thus signaling global ethnic/racial consciousness in the context of the HIV/AIDS discourse. This paper argues that the musical referencing of race and ethnicity by this group of HIV-positive South Afri…
South African Music in the History of Epidemics
South Africa is currently considered the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, but it has also witnessed several other disease epidemics in the past, such as smallpox, which plagued the region for nearly two centuries between 1713 and the late nineteenth century, and the 1918 influenza outbreak. This article, which is based on archival and ethnographic study, is a historiography of music in times of epidemics in South Africa. It offers a per…
Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition
Austin C. Okigbo, Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition, Africa Today, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 42-65
Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition
Austin C. Okigbo, Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition, Africa Today, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 42-65
Performing Blackness in a South African Hiv/Aids Choir
The Siphithemba Choir, an HIV/AIDS support group at the McCord Mission Hospital in Durban, South Africa, uses songs that conflate "Africa" and "Black Race" (abantu abamnyama)or "Black Nation" (Umnyama yezwe) to perform their experience of HIV/AIDS, thus signaling global ethnic/racial consciousness in the context of the HIV/AIDS discourse. This paper argues that the musical referencing of race and ethnicity by this group of HIV-positive South Afri…
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community Marie Jorritsma Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2011. xvii + 201 pp. (hbk) 978-1-43990-237-0 South African c
Soul Resonance
Book Review| September 01 2013 Soul Resonance: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of Zimbabwean Music Soul Resonance: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of Zimbabwean Music. 2012. Directed and edited by Douglas and Laurel Epps. Narrated by Taj Mahal. DVD, 83 minutes. Sacred Path Explorations; website: www.sacredpathexplorations.com. Austin C. Okigbo Austin C. Okigbo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2013) 57 (3): 561…
South African Music in the History of Epidemics
South Africa is currently considered the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, but it has also witnessed several other disease epidemics in the past, such as smallpox, which plagued the region for nearly two centuries between 1713 and the late nineteenth century, and the 1918 influenza outbreak. This article, which is based on archival and ethnographic study, is a historiography of music in times of epidemics in South Africa. It offers a per…
Media Health Images of Africa and the Politics of Representation
This paper is an ethnomusicological and media studies collaborative study that discusses the politics of representation on media health images, especially HIV/AIDS in Africa, and how a South African AIDS support group and choral ensemble offers a counter-narrative to the images that are seen in the Western media. Using ethnographic data on the group's organization, music events, and interviews with choir members, we argue that Siphithemba Choir's…
Music History and Culture (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Choir (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works)