Music and violence

Review article. The subject of Suzanne Cusick's three articles and the book by Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan is about violence and its connection with violence. In some of its most disturbing moments this resent research asks us to imagine what it would be like to be tortured by music, to be outfitted with a blindfold, sound-suppressing earmuffs and an anal plug, shackled, and flown to 'a "dark prison" filled with deafening western music.