MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears?
A brief overview of research commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People

http://www.nonoise.org/library/muzak/muzak.htm
Date Written:  1998-12-14
Year Published:  1998
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX10474

For many people background music, or "muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK's 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.

Subject Headings

• Noise Pollution