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Headphones are the New Walls: Music in the Workplace in the Digital Age

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21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture

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What kind of listening space is an office space? In Mike Judge’s cult classic, Office Space (1999), a lowly worker named Milton Waddam (Stephen Root) is trying to listen to the radio in his shabby cubicle. The film’s handsome anti-hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), is bothered by the sound.

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  1. Kathy M. Newman
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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Richard Purcell (Associate Professor) & Richard Randall (Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor) (Associate Professor) &  (Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor)

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Newman, K.M. (2016). Headphones are the New Walls: Music in the Workplace in the Digital Age. In: Purcell, R., Randall, R. (eds) 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture. Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137497604_11

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