'A Song is Not Just a Song': Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa's AIDS Crisis

GR Walker - African Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
South Africa has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, with more than five
million people receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) therapies (UNAIDS 2019). However, during the …

'Our songs were our stones': song and struggle in the treatment action campaign

GR Walker - Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
With 3 million people receiving anti-retroviral therapies (ARV) in South Africa, it has the
largest public ARV programme in the world. The implementation of this programme was …

[HTML][HTML] Curating Political Fellowship at the Intersections between Music and Activism Any cultural production is in and of itself a political act.

C Müller - activisthistory.com
Music plays a pivotal role in activism across the globe [i] and songs have been used to
curate political fellowship. The performance of a well-known song in the protest setting can …