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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.
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.
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
The Israelites’ cirm is not an assertion of difference, or the meaningless babble of a drowning, almost non-human army, but an assertion of triumphant plenitude. Their joyful cirm is a fulfillment of God’s covenant with Abraham, which the poet will remind us of later in the poem (435-442).
Apr 16, 2018 · Bruits [Noise] is certainly an important statement, one that anyone contemplating the history and economics of music should grapple with in some form, in the same way as with Roland Barthes ‘ Critique et vérité [Criticism and Truth]. Review of the Jacques Attali book.
Sep 16, 2015 · Listen to The Pop Star and the Prophet on Radio 4, at 11:30 on Thursday 17 September or catch it afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. As Attali turned out to be so right about everything - and saw it...
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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.
