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How to Make Music in an Epidemic

Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

Matthew Jones

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English
Routledge
07 June 2024
This volume examines responses to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Anglophone popular musicians and music video during the AIDS crisis (1981–1996).

Through close reading of song lyrics, musical texts, and music videos, this book demonstrates how music played an integral part in the artistic-activist response to the AIDS epidemic, demonstrating music as a way to raise money for HIV/AIDS services, to articulate affective responses to the epidemic, to disseminate public health messages, to talk back to power, and to bear witness to the losses of AIDS.

Drawing methodologies from musicology, queer theory, critical race studies, public health, and critical theory, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, including artists, activists, musicians, historians, and other scholars across the humanities as well as to people who lived through the AIDS crisis.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780367860431
ISBN 10:   0367860430
Series:   Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Pages:   214
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Matthew J. Jones is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University. His work explores the intersections of music and LGBTQ+ history, culture, and activism, particularly music and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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