"Sound Targetsreveals just how pervasively popular music has shaped contemporary U.S. military culture. This thoughtful and provocative study will certainly attract a wide audience concerned with music's roles in the time of war." W. Anthony Sheppard, author ofRevealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater _Although it is easy to trivialise the use of music in torture, and more broadly in warfare, it is an important and neglected issue.Sound Targetsoffers a serious and insightful examination of how music was used by American soldiers in the Iraq war. Sound Targetsprovides a valuable reminder that, As the author argues, music can both power and disempower; it can both torture and ensure psychic survival.

_ _ Keith Kahn-Harris is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, University of London, and The author ofExtreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge._.