How to make music in an epidemic : popular music making during the AIDS crisis, 1981-1996 /

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 14 February, 2025 - 10:12

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Jones, Matthew J.,

Source:

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States, p.212 pages ; (2024)

Call Number:

ML3470

Keywords:

1981-1990, 1991-2000, AIDS (Disease), Aspect social., Chants et musique, Histoire et critique., History and criticism., Musique populaire, Popular music, Sida, Social aspects., Songs and music

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.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"--