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Music, long seen as standing at a remove from political economy, is instead placed squarely at its center. For scholars persuaded of music’s social efficacy, of its ability to act upon and perhaps even change the world, Attali’s Bruits has proven in-valuable. This is most evident in connection to the new musicology.
Attali's essential argument in Noise: The Political Economy of Music (French title: Bruits: essai sur l'economie politique de la musique) is that music, as a cultural form, is intimately tied up in the mode of production in any given society.
- Jacques Attali, Brian Massumi, Frederic Jameson, Susan McClary
- 1977
Jacques Attali is one of the most influential economic theorists in the French Socialist Party today and a close personal adviser to President Mitterand. He is also a distinguished scholar, the author of a dozen books whose subjects range from political economy to euthanasia and music.
Jacques Attali was born on 1 November 1943 in Algiers (Algeria), with his twin brother Bernard Attali, in a Jewish family. His father, Simon Attali, is a self-educated person who achieved success in perfumery ("Bib et Bab" shop) in Algiers.
Rereading Jacques Attali's Bruits. Few disciplines have drawn as much inspiration from Bruits as have music studies. For historical musicologists in particular, Attali’s insistence that music be situated at the center of social history represented a clarion call upon the book’s publication in 1985, made all the more resonant by musicology ...
Apr 24, 2014 · Nearly 40 years after the publication of his 1977 book Noise: The Political Economy of Music, French economist and writer Jacques Attali spoke at Harvard on Monday about the relationship between music and a society’s economic structure. “Music is a metaphor for society,” said the founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction ...
Sep 9, 2004 · To the 'improvisation of music' he has added that 'of words' in 'rasta et dreadlocks', 'of life' in rap and 'of perestroika' in soviet underground rock. Attali is not the best source on these and his schema distorts their significance.
