I figure this is a good starting point for this blog; it integrates both music and the politics of war:
Mother Jones has an interesting run-down of the songs played by US guards and interrogators while torturing inmates captive in US military prisons. According to the author, Justine Sharrock, the playlist is based upon a
‘ leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees’
Yes. The Meow Mix song, the Bee Gees, Niel Diamond and David Gray are all indeed torturous songs. Personally (were I masochistic enough), I would have included some Fall Out Boy, Miley Cyrus, or really anything released by Jive Records after 1991.
Saying that, we’ll see is Bruce or Metallica are disgusted enough by this information to sue the DOD for copyright infringement. After all, I doubt even Don McLean licensed his all-American jig to harmonize with the muffled screams of those humans we deem ‘enemies’.
