Mbas Mi

Fighting Covid-19 Through Music in Senegal

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2098532
AutoresBabacar Ndiaye (0000-0002-7616-2538), Margaret Rowley
Ano2022
Volume65
Fascículo1
Páginas234-259
Data de publicação2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2021.115
OpenAlexW4200344056
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas25

In the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senegalese musicians produced a large body of songs addressing the coronavirus. These songs engage with prophylaxes, symptoms, instructions in case of infection, and metaphysical conceptions about the origin and meaning of the pandemic. These songs are part of a national strategy aimed at containing and eradicating the coronavirus by developing "COVID-literacy": knowledge about the pandemic which is spread through music. In this article, we examine a socio-local history of music's use during health crises, its place in local religious communities, and how its use interlaces linguistic, traditional, and metaphysical tenets

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Art · Coronavirus · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Epistemology · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Literacy · Literature · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Pandemic · Pathology · Pedagogy · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Virology