1st Edition
How to Make Music in an Epidemic Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996
By Matthew Jones
Copyright 2024
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction: How to Make Music in an Epidemic
Chapter Two: Palimpsests
Chapter Three: Intertexts
Chapter Four: Pedagogies
Chapter Five: Conspiracies
Chapter Six: Testimonials
Chapter Seven: Epilogue: Rolling Loud: Miami, 2021
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Biography
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.
