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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. He married Fernande Abécassis on 27 January 1943.
Sep 16, 2015 · Jacques Attali is a renowned economist, philosopher and political adviser, and author of more than 60 books. He was the architect of President Francois Mitterrand's rise to power, organiser of...
It has been nearly thirty years since Jacques Attali’s Bruits first appeared in English translation.1 In the decades since its publication the book has come to occupy a vital place in music and sound studies. The broad appeal of Bruits is due in part to the comparably broad sweep of Attali’s intellec-tual ambitions.
Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a book by French economist and scholar Jacques Attali which is about the role of music in the political economy.
- Jacques Attali, Brian Massumi, Frederic Jameson, Susan McClary
- 1977
For Radio 4 documentary The Pop Star and the Prophet, musician Sam York set out to meet Jacques Attali, an unorthodox French political theorist who predicted the decline of the music industry...
Jewish and Algerian pied noir by origin, a polymath enarch by accom-plishment, Jacques Attali during 1981-1991 was a sort of intellectual shadow of the Elected King of France. Because of François Mitterrand's own formidable intellectual grasp of his office, Attali never appeared to be
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 ...
