The Sound of Muzak: Music in Establishments in Oberlin

Check out the Google Site I made as my final project:

https://sites.google.com/oberlin.edu/oberlinmuzak/home

Excerpt from the site:

"In all of the establishments, there was an effort to make music be not too loud or intrusive. In this sense the music was surely meant to be background music. This relates to how certain scholars have considered Muzak to be “a soft totalitarian project of massified mood control” (Neo-Muzak and the Business of Mood). Atkinson claims that functional music can “generate places which are hostile to democratic participation” through promoting engagement of particular activities while in that place”. This was true in terms of the behavior promoted in each space—all places seemed to code for certain types of behavior..."


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