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From: ccb@krisis.zk3.dec.com (Chas. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Music manufactured by the yard, like cloth
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Date: 31 May 90 18:05:07 GMT
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In article <6085@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>, baez@x.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
> In article <24558@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> maverick@fir.berkeley.edu
(Vance Maverick) writes:
> 
> I don't think you need to worry about this attitude since
> it's unlikely to ever become a serious threat to culture
> the way Muzak, for example, has. 

This is an old topic but I couldn't let this one pass. Muzak is
a threat to culture in what way? The same way that wallpaper is
a threat to the art of still-life painting.

For what it's worth, I've come to love Muzak. It says more about
our culture than 100yds of "difficult" music.


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