How to Make Music in an Epidemic

<p>This volume examines responses to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Anglophone popular musicians and music video during the AIDS crisis (1981–1996).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>