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Despite most people believing music to have beneficial and even healing properties, Dr Kennaway's research shows a darker side to the art. For the last two hundred years many doctors, critics, and writers have suggested that certain kinds of music have the power to cause neurosis, madness, hysteria, and even death.

Dr Kennaway explores the claims: is it true that Wagner's compositions make listeners feel homosexual urges? Was Patty Hearst really brainwashed into robbing banks by loud rock music? And has the US Army really played Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' as a form of torture?

Dr James Kennaway is a medical historian at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, having previously worked at Oxford, Stanford, Durham and Vienna. He has written extensively on the relationship between medicine and culture, especially in regard to music. He is currently completing a book on race, surgery and empire.