Media Health Images of Africa and the Politics of Representation

A South African Aids Choir Counter-Narrative

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ID2308433
AuthorsAustin C Okigbo (Ethnomusicology and Africana Studies, University of Colorado, CO, USA), Bellarmine A Ezumah (Journalism and Mass Communications, Murray State University, KY, USA)
Year2017
Volume52
Issue5
Pages705-721
Publication date2017-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0021909615608208
OpenAlexW2419022730
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

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 story is a narrative of self-representation that subverts the appropriation of their story by the scientific community, and counters the helpless image of HIV-infected individuals that often comprise the face of HIV/AIDS in Africa in the mainstream media

Appropriation · Art · Choir · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Gender Studies · Law

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