{"id":2906,"date":"2020-01-13T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:55:50","slug":"a-few-words-on-the-important-sounds-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2020\/01\/13\/a-few-words-on-the-important-sounds-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words on the important sounds of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A prank by some scalawags on the McNichols Campus 61 years ago is mentioned prominently in a piece in last week’s edition of The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n

“In\u00a01959, a group of undergraduates at the University of Detroit sneaked two records into a jukebox in the snack bar at the Student Activities Building: one was silent, and the other played a short beep every fifteen seconds,” Amanda Petrusich begins in a short essay titled “The Restorative Pause of Silence.” She continues:\u00a0 “A pretty solid gag\u2014until people started purposefully cueing up the records.”<\/p>\n

Those records became so popular, that Billboard Magazine<\/em> wrote about the trend — they called it the Beep Generation —\u00a0 in February 1959 and used the story to\u00a0 prove the enduring popularity of the jukebox. “The juke box,” the editors wrote, “has weathered many storms; it has weathered hoodlums; it has weathered attempts to change its name; it has weathered being the butt of jokes. And it continues to play to the unending enjoyment of people.”<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read how Petrusich uses the incident as a springboard to discuss the place — or lack thereof — of silence in the modern world.<\/p>\n

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