Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

This Element focuses on how music is experienced articulated and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid to listeners spaces and music co- and re-produced continuously in their triangular relationship affected by social legal economic and technological factors. The study of the historical development of background music industries construction of contemporary sonic environments and individual meaning-making is based on extensive data gathered through interviews surveys and fieldwork and supported by archival research. Due to the Finnish context and the ethnomusicological approach this study is culture-sensitive providing a fresh ''factory-to-consumer'' perspective on a phenomenon generally understood as industry-lead behavioral and global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.