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work_liud7tkplbabjku3d6qh7i4fnm	Alan Bradshaw	"Exiled Music Herself, Pushed to the Edge of Existence": The Experience Of Musicians Who Perform Background Music	2005	21	.pdf	application/pdf	11048	698	65	the experiences of musicians who perform background music. on how they negotiate the romantic experience of music when the audience isn't interested. Keywords: Background Music; Musicians; Romanticism; Listening; Adorno; Muzak musicians who have worked playing live background music in bars, cafes or corporate addresses the history of listening to music and investigates the experiences of musicians As stated, the purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of professional musicians who perform background music, or have done so in the past. been divided into three over-lapping themes: musical integrity, pragmatics of background music performance and finally "people didn't listen". For this musician, musical integrity is closely associated with a lack of financial success. the musicians are not performing music but instead are banging their instruments. experience of music lives on and does so in the spirit of the musicians who strive against	./cache/work_liud7tkplbabjku3d6qh7i4fnm.pdf	./txt/work_liud7tkplbabjku3d6qh7i4fnm.txt