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Brown University [Bruce_Whitehouse@brown.edu] I plan to integrate contemporary African pop songs into a seminar I'm teaching starting next month, with the goal of exposing students to music pertaining to the topics discussed in class. While I know of some music suitable to this purpose, most of the African artists I listen to are from francophone W. Africa; ideally I'd like to use songs which come from the same country or region of the continent where each monograph is set. With this in mind, could H-Net participants recommend any music to use with the following topics and areas? * HIV/AIDS (South Africa--to accompany Didier Fassin's When Bodies Remember) * Famine (Zambia/Southern Africa--to accompany Lisa Cliggett's Grains >From Grass) * Gender and sexuality (Ghana/West Africa--to accompany John Chernoff's Hustling is not Stealing) * Migration/displacement (Tanzania/Burundi/East Africa--to accompany Marc Sommers' Fear in Bongoland) * Sorcery (Cameroon/Central Africa--to accompany Peter Geschiere's Modernity of Witchcraft) In addition to being thematically relevant, the best songs for this purpose will be (1) not difficult to obtain recordings of (e.g. via Amazon or iTunes), and (2) accompanied by translations/summaries of non-English lyrics. Once I compile a songlist I'd be glad to share it with others; perhaps we could start a wiki with information on pertinent songs, artists and lyrics for classroom use. Thanks,
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