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9780252037993 Academic Inspection Copy

Triple Entendre

Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus
  • ISBN-13: 9780252037993
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Herve Vanel
  • Price: AUD $113.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2014
  • Format: Hardback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines background music in several guises, including Erik Satie's ''Furniture Music'' of the late 1910s and early 1920s, which first demonstrated the idea of a music not meant to be listened to, and the Muzak Corporation's commercialized ambient music that became a predominant feature of modern life in the 1940s. Vanel's discussion culminates in the creative response of the composer John Cage to the pervasiveness and power of background music in contemporary society. By examining the subterranean connections existing between these three formulations of a singular idea, Triple Entendre analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.
This wonderfully provocative book places the tradition of 'background music' or 'environmental music' such as Muzak into a distinctly modern perspective. A sharp interdisciplinary study that makes connections between the popular and the avant-garde.--Tim J. Anderson, author of Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording
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