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1. Musicking in Applied Theatre: Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Drama-Based Health and Social Interventions

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Gavin Robert Walker

Abstract

Despite the often-crucial roles played by music within theatre-based public health promotion strategies, theoretical explorations regarding music within applied theatre literatures remain largely underdeveloped. This article highlights musicking -- a reconceptualization of music from an object to a participatory act that can profoundly influence relationships and spaces -- as an approach to understanding the various roles that music can play within applied theatre programmes. The article draws from ethnographic accounts of an HIV/AIDS applied theatre group in South Africa to advocate for increased recognition of musicking as a robust theoretical and methodological component within applied theatre praxis.

Published
2024
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2. ‘A Song is Not Just a Song’: Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa’s AIDS Crisis

Author

Gavin Robert Walker

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, medicine.medical_specialty, Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), virus diseases, medicine.disease, medicine.disease_cause, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Anthropology, Family medicine, Political Science and International Relations, medicine, business, Psychosocial
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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 early stages of t...

Published
2021

3. Sexual diversity and local values in a rural South African university town

Author

Gavin Robert Walker

Subjects
Gender Studies, Politics, White (horse), media_common.quotation_subject, Masculinity, Afrikaner nationalism, Sexual diversity, Gender studies, Ideology, Sociology, Education, media_common
Abstract

During South Africa’s apartheid era, the social and political ideology of Afrikaner nationalism Othered those who disrupted an idealised vision of white heteronormative Afrikaner masculinity. While...

Published
2021

4. 'Out there it’s YOLO': Youth perspectives on a mass media HIV- and gender-based violence campaign in South Africa

Author

Gavin Robert Walker

Subjects
Male, Adolescent, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Popular culture, HIV Infections, Gender-Based Violence, medicine.disease_cause, South Africa, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Virology, medicine, Humans, Mass Media, 030212 general & internal medicine, Sociology, Mass media, Gender inequality, 030505 public health, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Gender studies, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Infectious Diseases, Female, Public Health, 0305 other medical science, business
Abstract

Gender-based violence continues to be a leading determinant of South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic. As such, gender socialisation and de-normalisation of gender inequality and violence remain principal objectives for public health organisations. This article discusses youth reception of a mass media HIV/AIDS prevention campaign targeting gender inequality. Applying social cognitive theory to the analysis of focus group data highlights three interrelated challenges to encouraging positive self-efficacy in gender-based violence and HIV prevention: (1) HIV/ AIDS-related media saturation; (2) AIDS messaging fatigue; and (3) challenges reconciling popular youth culture with gender equity messaging. The article recommends public health and social justice organisations consider a flexible approach to the ideological or behavioural congruence of potential celebrity ambassadors and/or media to maximise youth appeal and reduce messaging fatigue.

Published
2021

5. ‘Our songs were our stones’: song and struggle in the treatment action campaign

Author

Gavin Robert Walker

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Sexual violence, Geography, Planning and Development, virus diseases, Gender studies, Development, medicine.disease, 030112 virology, 03 medical and health sciences, Action (philosophy), Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), immune system diseases, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, behavior and behavior mechanisms, medicine, health care economics and organizations
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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 made possible...

Published
2018

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