Research Seminar and Book Launch by Dr Bonnie McConnell, ANU School of Music, Thursday May 7th, 3.30 pm.

Details of the book, ‘Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia
are given below

This is a virtual seminar only. You can join the Zoom meeting by selecting this link:
https://music.cass.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/research-seminar-dr-bonnie-mcconnell-1
(If this does not open you will need to copy the link to your browser).
You will then be invited to ‘join the Zoom meeting here’ and you should click on ‘here’

The seminar will be recorded as well.

‘Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia. (Routledge, 2020). The book offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. It brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups in The Gambia, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 13 years (2006–2019), the author articulates a strengths-based framework for research on music and health that pushes beyond deficit narratives to emphasize the creativity and resilience of Gambian performers in responding to health disparities.’