Jones, Matthew J.,

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 .

Introduction -- Palimpsests -- Intertexts -- Pedagogies -- Conspiracies -- Testimonials -- Epilogue.

"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"--

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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

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