How to make music in an epidemic : popular music making during the AIDS crisis, 1981-1996 / Matthew J. Jones.
"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-activis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003016632 1003016634 9781040043448 1040043445 9781040043554 1040043550 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |