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- The book’s title refers specifically to the reception of musics that sonically rival normative social orders. Noise is Attali’s metaphor for a broad, historical vanguardism, for the radical soundscapes of the western continuum that express structurally the course of social development.”
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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
Feb 24, 1977 · Attali goes back as far as the middle ages to show how industrialism and capitalism have attempted to commodify music in the last 200 years, and how legislation has sought to discipline noise, restrict sound, and alienate both musicians and audiences from the cultural labor of creating music.
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Though Attali's historical analysis of music is thoroughly economic, his honest critiques of Marxism and his downright libertarian, Utopian and anti-economistic conclusions are surprising and welcome.
Common to these recent approaches is criticality towards the concept of noise as indexing a form of indeterminacy, or as embodying the negative, an approach that was exemplified, within a previous generation of noise theorists, by Jacques Attali’s Noise: The Political Economy of Music.
Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Jacques Attali. Manchester University Press, 1985 - Music - 179 pages. “For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of...
Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music opens with an ambitious program, the critique of two and a half millennia of Western knowledge.
Noise is, at its heart, a reversal of the orthodox reading of Marx's base/superstructure model. By situating music as annunciatory of political economy, Attali is rejecting the economic determinism and reflection theory inherent in much critical cultural work.
