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Heikki Uimonen, Kaarina Kilpiö, and Meri Kytö investigate the music that accompanies shopping, service work, and movement through urban commercial spaces. Their Finnish case studies connect the history of background-music businesses with the experiences of people who select, work amid, and listen to these sound environments. Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and archival research reveal how background music is produced and negotiated in everyday life.
The chapters move from the development of the industry and its technologies to the decisions made by providers, the use of music behind the shop counter, and listeners’ responses around town. Attention to local institutions and listening habits gives a detailed view of a phenomenon often discussed only as a global marketing tool. The authors consider how spaces, musical choices, and individual meanings shape one another, including occasions when people contest the sounds imposed on them.
Heikki Uimonen; Kaarina Kilpiö; Meri Kytö. Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life. Cambridge University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009374682. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Original edition unchanged.