Article ID: CBB001210691

Musical Hypnosis: Sound and Selfhood from Mesmerism to Brainwashing (2012)

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Music has long been associated with trance states, but very little has been written about the modern western discussion of music as a form of hypnosis or `brainwashing'. However, from Mesmer's use of the glass armonica to the supposed dangers of subliminal messages in heavy metal, the idea that music can overwhelm listeners' self-control has been a recurrent theme. In particular, the concepts of automatic response and conditioned reflex have been the basis for a model of physiological psychology in which the self has been depicted as vulnerable to external stimuli such as music. This article will examine the discourse of hypnotic music from animal magnetism and the experimental hypnosis of the nineteenth century to the brainwashing panics since the Cold War, looking at the relationship between concerns about hypnotic music and the politics of the self and sexuality.

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Authors & Contributors
Schott, Heinz G.
Schmit, David T.
Maehle, Andreas-Holger
Manning, Céline Frigau
William Hughes
Sommer, Andreas
Concepts
Hypnosis and hypnotism
Mesmerism
Psychology
Medicine
Animal magnetism
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
France
Great Britain
England
Spain
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