Muzak to My Ears
£2.50
Canned Music, Public Space & Class Struggle.
Originally piped into workplaces to improve productivity, muzak has now
invaded public space everywhere, from lifts to shops, transport,
toilets, telephones... Used in shops to create an atmosphere that makes
what is on sale more saleable and appealing; neatly illustrating the old
situationist slogan “culture - the commodity that sells all the others”.
From drumming more productivity from workers in World War 2, to modern
developments in music and sound as social control; Muzak to My Ears
recounts a brief history of muzak and analyses its role in our
continuing alienation.