How to make music in an epidemic : popular music making during the AIDS crisis, 1981-1996 /
Matthew J. Jones.
- [1.].
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- 1 online resource.
- Ashgate popular and folk music series .
"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"--
AIDS (Disease)--Songs and music--History and criticism. Popular music--History and criticism.--1981-1990 Popular music--History and criticism.--1991-2000 AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal