In this Book
- Triple Entendre: Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
Vanel's discussion culminates in the creative response of the composer John Cage to the pervasiveness and power of background music in contemporary society. Cage neither opposed nor rejected Muzak, but literally answered its challenge by formulating a parallel concept that he called "Muzak-Plus." Forty years after Satie presented his work to general critical puzzlement, Cage saw how background music could be combined with mid-century technology and theories of art and performance to create a participatory soundscape on a scale that Satie could not have envisioned, again reconfiguring the listener's stance to music. 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.
Table of Contents
- Preface: Cage Free
- pp. ix-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- Chapter 2. Muzak Incorporated
- pp. 46-83
- Conclusion: The Community to Come
- pp. 126-134
- References
- pp. 181-188
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Copyright
2013