Muzak

muzak English Alternative forms en musac muzak 2022 March 21 Etymology The noun is a en music the letters ak from Kodak 1, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was en George Owen Squier the American inventor, scientist, and soldier 1 1 (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.n 124404 December 2020 1; muzak nDavid Toop David Toop Environmental music [background music] Grove Music Online Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxford University Press 20 January 2001 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.43820 541463444. The verb is derived from the noun.v 235051 September 2018 Pronunciation en /ˈmjuːzæk/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-muzak.wav Southern England en /ˈmjuzæk/ GA en Mu zak Proper noun - en music trademark Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises. from 1934 en aural wallpaper US elevator music Britain lift music 1976 5 105 It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass. en Michael Gross Tom Turicchi The Hits Just Keep on Coming Robert Atwan; Barry Orton; William Vesterman American Mass Media: Industries and Issues New York, N.Y. w:Random House 7 February 1975 1978 part 3 (The Sound Media) 320 https://archive.org/details/americanmassmedi0000atwa/page/320/mode/1up 2 978-0-394-32029-8 There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.] en Bill Hunter It’s Muzak through Your Ears Robert Atwan; Barry Orton; William Vesterman American Mass Media: Industries and Issues 3rd New York, N.Y. w:Random House November 1983 1986 part 3 (The Sound Media) 289 https://archive.org/details/americanmassmedi0000unse/page/289/mode/1up 1 978-0-394-34033-3 Some people, of course, have no trouble making that decision: they know they don't like Muzak. Critics charge that Muzak invades what could be pleasurable silence, disrupts conversation, or smacks of George Orwell's 1984. [Originally published in American Way.] Derived terms en muzakal Muzak man muzaky Newzak Translations type of background music Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 罐頭音樂 guàntóuyīnyuè Finnish: fi hissimusiikki, fi muzak French: fr muzak f Polish: pl muzak m-in Spanish: es muzak m Noun - en often derogatory en music Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting. en aural wallpaper ear candy en w:John Lennon How Do You Sleep? Imagine 9 September 1971 The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years en w:David Foster Wallace This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life https://books.google.com/books?id=lfAFVtz-at8C&pg=PT71 New York, N.Y. w:Little, Brown and Company 21 May 2005 April 2009 978-0-316-07100-0 [T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out. en figuratively Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding. Translations easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting Finnish: fi hissimusiikki Polish: pl muzak m-in something regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding Polish: pl muzak m-in See also en fast food music Verb en transitive en transitive To provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak. en transitive To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak. en w:Peter LaSalle 13 Strange Sunlight:A Novel Austin, Tex. Texas Monthly Press 1984 115 https://archive.org/details/strangesunlightn0000lasa/page/115/mode/1up 978-0-932012-87-6 Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling. Derived terms en Muzaked adjective Translations to provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak Polish: pl instalować muzak impf, pl zainstalować muzak pf to adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak Polish: pl zamieniać w muzak impf, pl zamienić w muzak pf References Further reading Anagrams en akmuz Kuzma en genericized trademarks