[ANPPOM-L] Sociedade Musicológica Americana aprova resolução contra tortura musical

[carlos palombini]

Também como resultado do artigo de Suzanne Cusick, "'You are in a place 
that is out of the world. . .': Music in the Detention Camps of the 
'Global War on Terror'" (resumo infra), o conselho de diretores da 
Sociedade Musicológica Americana aprovou, em seu encontro em Nashville 
algumas semanas atrás, uma resolução contra o uso da música como tortura 
física e psicológica.

Based on first-person accounts of interrogators and former detainees as 
well as unclassified military documents, this article outlines the 
variety of ways that “loud music” has been used in the detention camps 
of the United States' "global war on terror." A survey of practices at 
Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan; Camp Nama (Baghdad), Iraq; Forward 
Operating Base Tiger (Al-Qaim), Iraq; Mosul Air Force Base, Iraq; 
Guantánamo, Cuba; Camp Cropper (Baghdad), Iraq; and at the "dark 
prisons" from 2002 to 2006 reveals that the use of "loud music" was a 
standard, openly acknowledged component of "harsh interrogation." Such 
music was understood to be one medium of the approach known as 
"futility" in both the 1992 and the 2006 editions of the US Army's field 
manual for interrogation. The purpose of such "futility" techniques as 
"loud music" and "gender coercion" is to persuade a detainee that 
resistance to interrogation is futile, yet the military establishment 
itself teaches techniques by which "the music program" can be resisted. 
The article concludes with the first-person account of a young US 
citizen, working in Baghdad as a contractor, who endured military 
detention and "the music program" for ninety-seven days in mid-2006—a 
man who knew how to resist.

Carlos