muzacとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

muzac (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of muzak
   • 1978 Raymond Williams, "Utopia and Science Fiction," 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 かつ 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, Earthscan, p. 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, Cambridge University Press, p. 229.

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