"The most popular theory about the origins of music on elevators, repeated everywhere from the New Yorker to the writer Joseph Lanza's history of Muzak, is that elevators were terrifying, and people needed the music to calm their frazzled nerves. ... Yet on closer interrogation, there are a few holes in this explanation. The earliest known references to music in elevators are from the early 1930s ... Were people really afraid of elevators nearly 80 years after they were invented?"
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