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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. The Moshi Spirit -- 2. The Homecoming -- 3. Nakafero -- 4. Rohana Club -- 5. Nakafero's Death and Legacy -- 6. Namusisi -- 7. The Dust House -- 8. Habitat for Humanity -- 9. The Karamojong -- 10. The Farm Projects -- 11. Akarun Akalam (Unearthing the Pen) -- 12. The Shoe Box -- 13. The Slums -- 14. The Beggars -- 15. From the Dust -- 16. Forgiveness from the Heart -- 17. The Night Commuters -- 18. The Fishing Nets -- 19. The Mustard Seed -- Back Cover.

Scrambling for Africa -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Resistant to Treatment -- 2. The Molecular Politics of HIV -- 3. The Turn toward Africa -- 4. Research and Development -- 5. Doing Global Health -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social and political conflicts in the contemporary world. Contributors detail how music and performance are deployed to critique power structures and to nurture cultural awareness among communities in conflict. Speaking to the cultural implications of globalization and pointing out how music can promote a shared musical heritage across borders, the essays discuss the music of Albania, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, North and South Korea, Uganda, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia. _x000B_Contributors are Samuel Araujo, William Beeman, Stephen Blum, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, David Cooper, Keith Howard, Inna Naroditskaya, John Morgan O'Connell, Svanibor Pettan, Anne K. Rasmussen, Adelaida Reyes, Anthony Seeger, Jane C. Sugarman, and Britta Sweers.

Demographic Effects of Economic Reversals in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- DIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC EXPERIENCES -- DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- HYPOTHESES -- FINDINGS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Economic and Demographic Overview of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Seven Countries Studied -- ECONOMIC CHANGE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE OF THE SEVEN STUDY COUNTRIES -- DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE SEVEN STUDY COUNTRIES -- 3 Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses -- TYPES OF FLUCTUATIONS -- EFFECTS OF FLUCTUATIONS ON HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES -- EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES ON DEMOGRAPHIC EVENTS -- SHORT-TERM VARIATION IN PREINDUSTRIAL EUROPE -- MEASURING SHORT-TERM VARIATION IN OTHER POPULATIONS -- THE RELEVANCE FOR AFRICA OF RESULTS FROM OTHER STUDIES -- 4 Methodology -- TYPES OF MODELS -- ECONOMIC VARIABLES AND SECULAR TRENDS -- CONTROL VARIABLES -- MEHTODOLOGY FOR ANALYSIS OF MARRIAGE AND BIRTHS -- METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYSIS OF CHILD MORTALITY -- HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS -- 5 Country Results -- BOTSWANA -- Economic Experience -- Demographic Outcomes -- GHANA -- Economic Experience -- Independence Through 1974 -- 1974 to 1983 -- 1983 to 1988 -- Demographic Outcomes -- KENYA -- Economic Experience -- 1963 to 1973 -- 1973 to 1980 -- 1978 On -- Demographic Outcomes -- NIGERIA -- Economic Experience -- Demographic Outcomes -- SENEGAL -- Economic Experience -- Demographic Outcomes -- TOGO -- Economic Experience -- Demographic Outcomes -- UGANDA -- Economic Experience -- Demographic Outcomes -- 6 Cross-National Comparisons -- INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY -- MARRIAGE -- FIRST BIRTH -- SECOND BIRTH -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Caveats and Conclusions -- APPENDIXES -- A Economic Data -- COUNTRY DATA -- Data on Gross Domestic Product, Terms of Trade, and Export Quantities -- GDP.