muzac

English

Noun

muzac (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of muzak
   • 1978, Raymond Williams, “Utopia and Science Fiction”, in Science Fiction Studies, 5(3), p. 211:

     It is in the name of Community, the utopian impulse, and in the names of communism (Bernard Marx and Lenina) that the system is seen as realised, though the actual tendencies—from the degradation of labor through an ultimate division and specialisation to the organised mobility and muzac of planned consumption—rely for their recognition on a contemporary capitalist world.

   • 2011, John Stewart et al., Why Noise Matters: A Worldwide Perspective on the Problems, Policies and Solutions‎^[1], Earthscan, page 120:

     When asked to name a place or chain with particularly bad piped music, I point out that, as most places now have muzac, you simply need to walk down any high street.

   • 2013, Marek Korczynski et al., Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, page 229:

     Management played on the unpopularity of the muzac in launching UBN by creating posters which contrasted UBN with the muzac...