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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.
- Jacques Attali, Brian Massumi, Frederic Jameson, Susan McClary
- 1977
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. While this initial statement is perhaps more symbolic than substantive, Noise does undertake a significant historical revision of the last three hundred years of Western music.
- Jason Lee Guthrie
Sep 14, 2015 · Attali: “Noise: The Political Economy of Music” (1977) Attali’s wide-ranging exploration of music’s role in society and history has many applications to the study (& performance!) of 19th century music:
Nov 12, 2017 · Attali’s seminal text Noise: the Political Economy of Music demonstrates how the organisation of sound (as music but also as not noise), is crucial to the consolidation of a totality. In order to understand how the structures of capital are organised, he makes the point that ‘any theory of power today must include a theory of the ...
- Lynne Kendrick
- lynne.kendrick@cssd.ac.uk
- 2017
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.
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.
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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.
