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.

List 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

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.

Summary

Matthew Jones provides the first full-length perspective on Western musical responses to the AIDS epidemic and explores how English-language popular music was used, composed, and performed in the context of the North American crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Jones
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2024
• EAN: 9780367860431
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86043-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Pop Music, Popular Music, c 1970 to c 1980, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases