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Title: Dangerous Music
Speaker: Jessica Krash, George Washington University and Norman Middleton, Library of Congress Music Division
Series: Music and the Brain
Date: January 29, 2009
Running Time: 13:04 minutes
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Description:
Artistic anathemas, musical mayhem, and cultural conundrums such as "the devil's music" - Middleton and Krash explore the psychological and social issues associated with the human tendency toward censorship of musical expression, as well as what has been described as "suicide-by-music" and crimes that have been connected to musical genres.
About Music and the Brain
The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.