How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996
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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How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996
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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How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

by Matthew Jones
How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

by Matthew Jones

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367860431
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/07/2024
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

 

Preface

 

Chapter One: Introduction

 

Chapter Two: Palimpsests

 

Chapter Three: Intertexts

 

Chapter Four: Pedagogies

 

Chapter Five: Conspiracies

 

Chapter Six: Testimonials

 

Chapter Seven: Epilogue

 

Acknowledgements

 

Index

 

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