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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
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.
5 Excerpts. Music, time, and international political economy: making coevalness. M. Davies. Political Science. Review of International Political Economy. 2022. Abstract Recent critical studies in International Political Economy (IPE) have engaged with the ‘temporal turn’ in International Relations.
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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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.
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 change,...
Books. “For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an anticipatory abstraction of the shape of things to come. The book’s title refers specifically to the...
