{"id":2335,"date":"2009-05-22T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2009-05-22T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:00:42","slug":"music-as-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Music as torture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music<\/a> as a way to break prisoners\u2019 will and turn their brains to mush.:<\/p>\n

At a recent \u201cMusic and Torture\u201d conference near New York, [Chloe] Davies described the experience of several former detainees including Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who moved to Britain as a teenager. He was released from Guantanamo in February after nearly seven years in U.S. and Moroccan custody.<\/p>\n

During interrogations in Morocco, Mohamed reported being physically tortured, including having his penis repeatedly cut with a scalpel, yet he said what he found hardest was having loud music blasted at him in the dark for days on end.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a while, I felt pretty much dead, I didn\u2019t feel I existed at all,\u201d Davies quoted Mohamed as saying.<\/p>\n

\nAnother former detainee, Rhuhel Ahmed, thought initially it was a joke when his captors played rapper Eminem\u2019s music, Davies said.\n

\u201cBut after so long, when he started to hallucinate, he said he got why they were doing it,\u201d she said, quoting Ahmed as saying, \u201cThe music torture stripped away the last sanctuary you had in your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know what he means!<\/p>\n

Davies said Reprieve was also discussing with U.S. lawyers possible legal action that musicians may take against the U.S. government to claim compensation for copyright infringement. She said musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails was among those interested in pursuing legal action.<\/p>\n

According to Reprieve, music that has been used ranges from heavy metal such as AC\/DC, Aerosmith and Metallica to the theme tune from the children\u2019s show \u201cSesame Street.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing is, that same torture is going on right now, being committed against our own young people! Some of the torturers are driving around with their windows rolled down, torturing the general public! Cases are reported of thousands of people being herded into large auditoriums, whereupon they are subjected to mass musical torture.<\/p>\n

Seriously, I don\u2019t intend to minimize actual torture. This actually has me sympathizing with the prisoners, though not with the indignant musicians. <\/p>\n

What are some songs that you would find torturous, that if you had to hear them over and over, you would spill every secret you knew just to make it stop?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break prisoners\u2019 will and turn their brains to mush.: At a recent \u201cMusic and Torture\u201d conference near New York, [Chloe] Davies described the experience of several former detainees including Binyam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"yoast_head":"\nMusic as torture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Music as torture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-22T10:00:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/\",\"name\":\"Music as torture\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-22T10:00:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-22T10:00:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/music-as-torture\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Music as torture\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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