Matthew J. Jones听is a Houston-based musicologist and cultural critic. A first-generation college student from rural northern Georgia, he received a doctorate in Critical and Comparative Studies in Music from The The University of Virginia in 2014. His work explores the relationships between LGBTQIA+ culture, music, media, and activism. His book,听Love Don't Need a Reason: 听(Punctum Books) will be published in 2020. His work has also appeared in听The Journal of the Society for American Music, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Women and Music,听and the听Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.听In 2017, he won the ASCAP Deems Taylor/ Virgil Thompson prize for concert music criticism for his essay, 鈥淓nough of Being Basely Tearful: 鈥楪litter and Be Gay鈥� and the Camp Politics of Queer Resistance.鈥� He is currently at work on a second book,听Popular Music-Making During the AIDS Crisis: 1981鈥�1996(Routledge, forthcoming).