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This issue addresses the subject of the use of music in connection with torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. Articles include case studies on music in the context of corporal punishment in the British armed forces in the 18th and 19th centuries, music in National Socialist concentration camps, and the use of music as a form of torture and terror in Greece and in Chile under Pinochet. The volume also raises theoretical and practical issues relating to research into music torture, and situates the discussion of music torture within the wider context of torture in the world today.