Music in Detention and Interrogation

Windsor, W. Luke

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“…Music has also been used in conflict situations as a form of torture. In 1989, when the U.S. army in Panama was trying to remove Gen. Noriega from his sanctuary in the Vatican's diplomatic mission, loud rock music was played from large speakers (Windsor, 2019).…”

Section: Music and Wellbeing -Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community

Creech¹,

Hodges²,

Hallam³

2021

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This chapter outlines the social function of music, emphasising music as a universally accessible, social phenomenon. I propose five categories and one overarching caveat represented by the anacronym C-WARIS (Communication, Wellbeing, Art, Ritual, Identity and Social Networks). The primary social function of music is communication. Music is utilised in maintaining and enhancing wellbeing and as a pleasurable art form. It functions universally with within religious, spiritual and ceremonial activities. Music also functions as a resource in establishing and maintaining identities and social networks. Reciprocal determinism (Bandura, 1986) and social identity theory (Turner & Reynolds 2010) are used to offer overarching theoretical contexts for these mechanisms. Introduction We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.Willie Nelson We are all musical and music is universal; these are not glib assertions, but wellevidenced conclusions drawn by researchers from across the academic spectrum. Music is universally accessible and universally available. Everyone can communicate using music and everyone can be moved by experiencing music, regardless of environmental or health factors . These observations lead us to ask a very basic question: what are the functions of music? While the quote above from Willie Nelson (Nelson & McMurtry, 2003, p. 119) may seem just another glib generalisation, there are several points of interest for us in terms of the aims of this chapter. Willie Nelson signals music's universal presence and its distinction as a unique and separate channel of communication, quite separate from other channels (e.g., language, visual). In saying music "goes right to the soul", he draws on the observation that music can invoke powerful emotions and deep memories; it can help bring people together and unite us in a collective activity. These are not anodyne blandishments, but suggest that underlying music's power to communicate are significant social, psychological and musical processes that combine in unique and important ways to help give music its meaning.

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Section: Music and Wellbeing -Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community

Creech¹,

Hodges²,

Hallam³

2021

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Singing the Night

Levesque

2023

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This paper explores singing lullabies as a practice that opens spaces to reflect on ‘night’ as a sonic and sensory experience with implications for research in music and peacebuilding. Using arts-based and autoethnographic approaches, I ask: Can singing lullabies (Juvancic 2010) open a space to examine how sounding at night shapes a researcher’s ‘peace’ imaginary? This question aims to expand understandings of the ‘self’ as a site of an “aesthetics of resistance” (Möller 2020), or the notion that individual reflection and action sustain social engagement in music and peacebuilding scholarship. These understandings can contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on self-reflexivity and performance as ethnographic access points to peace imaginaries in Night Studies.

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Music in Detention and Interrogation

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community

Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community

Singing the Night

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