Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have
rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we
anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been
somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the
"Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover
band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't
quite do justice to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds
music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of
fierce protection. There's nothing wrong with the human instinct to
safeguard beloved music . . . except, perhaps, when this instinct
leads us to hurt or neglect fellow human beings in turn: say, by
heaping outsized shame upon those who seem to do music wrong; or by
rushing to defend a conductor's beautiful recordings while failing
to defend the multiple victims who have accused this maestro of
sexual assault. Loving Music Till It Hurts is a capacious
exploration of how people's head-over-heels attachments to music
can variously align or conflict with agendas of social justice. How
do we respond when loving music and loving people appear to clash?
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