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The Light and Dark of Music, with Lily E. Hirsch

Strong Songs

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The Role of Music in Torture

The way that music can fit into a broader torture regimen. Like during the hunt for Osama bin Laden the way they would play really loud music to keep people from sleeping and to kind of interrupt their thoughts so that they just start to mentally break down. And it's horrifying. It's like everything that I personally think music shouldn't be but that music can be.

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