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Music and the Iraq War

By Christy Tennant

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue

 
Concerts & Conversations:

Music and the Iraq War


Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm


This special evening of performances and discussion explores the role of music in combat and in soldiers' other experiences in Iraq.

Participants feature:
Alex Ross,
New Yorker music critic
Jonathan Pieslak,
author of
Sound Targets
Colby Buzzell,
former Army SPC and best-selling author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Jason Sagebiel,
guitarist, composer, and former Marine sergeant


Tickets $25, $10 students

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Published at February 8th, 2010

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