Bleed a little louder: Sound, silence and music torture

Music, like medicine, can be used to damage as well heal, and there is a long history linking music with punishment rituals, torture. However, the common tendency think about violence injury in terms of physical force visible scars means that impacts psychological social have often been downplayed, even silenced. The emphasis on physicality also results erroneous ideas torture: for example, assumption must intensely physical, ergo extremely loud. Studying non-physical present difficulties historian, not least given changes how illness are discussed perceived. nineteenth-century debates around flogging demonstrate, historical actors sometimes show surprisingly acute awareness medical violence. This essay ultimately argues giving voice survivors these forms imperative justice healing, historians placed contribute this.