With the debate over torture continuing in Washington, relatively little attention has been focused on the practice of music as torture. The CIA has used loud music at deafening volumes as an "enhanced interrogation technique" -- recently drawing protest from groups like the American Musicological Society. We examine music and prisoner abuse and whether the practice will continue under the Obama administration.
Our guests are Jonathan Pieslak, a CUNY professor, composer and author of the book Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War; Moustafa Bayoumi, also a CUNY professor, and author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America; and Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Botelho, who has been deployed to Iraq three times.
Our guests are Jonathan Pieslak, a CUNY professor, composer and author of the book Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War; Moustafa Bayoumi, also a CUNY professor, and author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America; and Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Botelho, who has been deployed to Iraq three times.