The course is interdisciplinary, related to the fields of political science, legal studies, anthropology, and sociology. Students are expected to read between 12-24 pages for each class.nnMusic, sound, and violence can be interrelated. Radical groups utilize music to inculcate ideas which may lead to violence, and state policing officials may play songs and melodies as part of interrogation techniques. In attempts to dodge international law, powerful states utilize music as part of torture, preserving humanitarian discourse while brutalizing enemies of state. During moments of intense violence, chanting may support fighting, encouraging individuals to act in accordance to the groups they join. And sound is also part of war and crime, traumatizing witnesses and combatants but also informing them about their settings and surroundings. An essential human expression, music may serve to heal and protest, aiding groups which have been victims of systemic violence, but which may also seek to redress their circumstances through the art of sound.
