Entertainment music fills the pockets of silence left by people unable to communicate.

Evidence

Everywhere it takes over, unnoticed, the deadly sad role that fell to it in the time and the specific situation of the silent films. It is perceived purely as background. If nobody can any longer speak, then certainly nobody can any longer listen. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the reader’s ongoing silence/noise thread — music as administered filler occupying the gaps between speechless, anxious people.