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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Songs of War: Music as a Weapon
  name:
    name part: Java Films (Firm),$4dst
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Indigenous Studies.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: Winner of an international Emmy. Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica at Taliban hideouts – the principle is always the same: Aggressive sounds demoralise the enemy and whip the allies into a frenzy. In ’Songs of War’, we explore the extraordinary harmony between music and violence. Sesame Street composer, Christopher Cerf, always wanted his music to be fun and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants to find out how this could happen. Cerf embarks on a journey to learn what makes music such a powerful stimulant. In the process, he speaks to soldiers, psychologists and prisoners tortured with his music at Guantanamo and find out how the military has been employing music as a potent weapon for hundreds of years..
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Film
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Java Films in 2011.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English
  subject:
    topic: Documentary-style films
  subject:
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous Studies
  identifier: 1186989 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160825
    record change date: 20260324180735.0
    record identifier: in00003752842
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng