Music and Torture in the War on Terror: Musicology, Media and Censorship Effects
a free public lecture by Suzanne G. Cusick, New York University
with an introduction by Jonathan Sterne, 苹果淫院
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Within the context of Media@苹果淫院鈥檚 current program on , Suzanne G. Cusick, Professor of Music at New York University, will address the treatment of music torture in the U.S. entertainment media, as well as the profound epistemological challenge that music torture presents to the disciplinary habits of musicology. Cusick鈥檚 talk will survey and interrogate the ways that public debate about "music torture" has been stifled by the convergence of forces that produce a censorship effect independent of state enforcement.
In 2007, Cusick鈥檚 research on the use of noise, music and "gender coercion" in the detention and interrogation of prisoners held during the twenty-first-century's "war on terror" was awarded the Philip Brett Award given by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society. She has also published extensively on the subject of gender and sexuality in relation to the musical cultures of early modern Italy and of contemporary North America.
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