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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
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.
This category focuses on the disinterested pleasure in music-making, rehearsing a somewhat Kantian theme of emancipation from means to an end. But its focus on the individual makes it prone to Châtelet’s criticism of Attali as propounding an anarcho-mercantilist form of sociality.
Oct 14, 2022 · The central concept of Noise is that music is prophetic of society, but that the prophecy can only be accessed if one breaks with the purely technical, aesthetic, and cultural analyses that dominate the academic treatment of music. Attali’s case study is western music and civilization over the last three centuries.
Apr 16, 2018 · Jacques Attali’s Bruits [Noise] was first published in French in 1977, then in English translation in 1985. It presents a long-term history of musical development, based on Attali’s novel theory of distinct stages of historical development in music.
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 ...
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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.
