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This reorientation of listening can also be seen in the way in which background music was instrumentalized during the advent of Taylorism applied to the management of industrial factories.3 By 1945, a company called Muzak, Inc. had contracts to transmit background music over telephone wires into as many as 6,000 American factories.4 These pre-recorded broadcasts consisted of ebbs and flows of instrumental music, which softened the brutality of long hours on the factory floor and aligned workers towards greater productivity.This reorientation of listening can also be seen in the way in which background music was instrumentalized during the advent of Taylorism applied to the management of industrial factories.3 By 1945, a company called Muzak, Inc. had contracts to transmit background music over telephone wires into as many as 6,000 American factories.4 These pre-recorded broadcasts consisted of ebbs and flows of instrumental music, which softened the brutality of long hours on the factory floor and aligned workers towards greater productivity.

This reorientation of listening can also be seen in the way in which background music was instrumentalized during the advent of Taylorism applied to the management of industrial factories.3 By 1945, a company called Muzak, Inc. had contracts to transmit background music over telephone wires into as many as 6,000 American factories.4 These pre-recorded broadcasts consisted of ebbs and flows of instrumental music, which softened the brutality of long hours on the factory floor and aligned workers towards greater productivity.

This piece is part of our series with Naive Yearly