The term is also frequently applied as a generic (and often derogatory) term for any form of easy listening, smooth jazz, or middle of the road music, or to the type of recordings once commonly heard on " adult contemporary" radio stations.Įasy listening music for malls and elevators is typically set to a very simple melody, so that it can be unobtrusively looped back to the beginning. Beautiful music can also be regarded as a subset of the middle of the road radio format.Įasy listening is broad and may include instrumental arrangements of popular music designed for playing in shopping malls, grocery stores, department stores, telephone systems (while the caller is on hold), cruise ships, airports, doctors' and dentists' offices, and elevators. Lounge music, beautiful music, and the often derogatory terms Muzak, "doctor's office" and elevator music are other common terms for the format and the style of music that it featured. It was mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s. The range of lounge music encompasses soft rock music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, nu-jazz and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro- space-age cultural elements. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres.
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR (middle-of-the-road) music as played on many AM radio stations.
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