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Infectious Rhythm
Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture
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Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression.
The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance, sculpture, painting, orature, literature and film. While pointing to the lengthy and complex history of the metaphor of African contagion, Browning argues that in its politicized, life-affirming embodiment, the figure might actually teach us to respond to epidemia humanely.
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Topic
ArtSubtopic
Popular Culture in ArtINDEX
ACT-UP, 9, 149
ACT UP/NY Women & AIDS Book Group, 200n43
AIDS (see also HIV), 129, 131, 133, 146, 148, 149,
activism, 9, 11, 36, 176
alternative therapies for, xii, xiv
characteristics of, 20
education, 15, 28, 176–77, 180–85
epidemiological narratives of, 9, 51–53, 67, 89
explicit versus implicit referencing of, 48, 169–70
exploitation and, 4, 15, 23, 68, 72–73, 75, 153
identity, difference and, 10–12, 121, 132, 142, 146, 150, 211n37
in Africa, 10, 13, 17, 29, 61, 64–65, 68, 71–79
in the Caribbean, 17
in Haiti, 10, 89, 98, 100
in the Third World, 52, 60
in the U.S., xi–xiii, 10, 17, 23, 29, 156
indiscretion and, 129, 175
medical treatment of, xi–xiv, 8, 26
monies for, 108, 118
non-Western treatment of, 8, 68, 71–85
pandemic, 7, 12, 18, 23, 136–37, 150, 176
race of researchers and physicians, 108
Reagan and, 152–53
significance of, 23, 25, 27, 31
source of computer virus metaphor, 132
violence against perceived “victims” of, 169
women and:, see women and AIDS/HIV
worldwide, 72, 73
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, 195n17, n22; 204n9, 206n2, n3
AIDS: The Burdens of History, 19...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: “Haiti Is Here/ Haiti Is Not Here”
- ONE: Babaluaiyé: Diaspora As Pandemic
- TWO: Compact World
- THREE: Lutte contre les moustiques: The Question of Irony
- FOUR: African Medicine Men
- FIVE: Voodoo Economics
- SIX: Mixing Bloods: The L.A. Riots
- SEVEN: Cyberspace, Voodoo Sex, and Retroviral Identity
- EIGHT: Benetton: Blood Is Big Business
- NINE: Penetrable Selves (“Paris Is Burning”)
- TEN: The Closed Body
- Notes
- Index