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- 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.
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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
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.
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 ...
Jacques Attali, a French economist who was a Special Counsellor to President François Mitterand, proposes a number of theories on the political economy of music in this book, some quite bold and difficult to accept at first encounter, others more readily convincing.
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...
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- Jacques Attali
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Noise is a professional economist; meanwhile, the recurrent phenomenon of child prodigies in music and in mathematics alike perhaps also suggests the peculiarity of the numerical gift, which would seem to demand less practical experience of the world and of social life than does work in other fields.
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.
