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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.. 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
2015, Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association. 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 ...
- Jason Lee Guthrie
Abstract. Attali subtitles his book “The Political Economy of Music,” which, combined with the author's background as a professor of economic theory and an advisor to former French President Mitterrand, may warn the reader that this is a dry piece of Marxist analysis. Though Attali's historical analysis of music is thoroughly economic, his ...
Jacques Attali – An introduction to Noise: The Political Economy of Music Feature Most read November 21 2019, af nilsbloch. Essay by Macon Holt. Before he was the head of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and before he was an economic advisor to French president François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali wrote a strange book that was hugely influential within peculiar circles ...
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. In a manner much of its own, the book offers a model of music as the sacrificial ritual of noise ...
Jacques Attali. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.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 ...
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Nov 12, 2017 · In the introduction to Theatre Noise: the Sound of Performance, David Roesner and I made the case for a material form of noise, which becomes productive. 6 This chapter will extend this research by exploring the ways in which this productivity takes place, how noise figures within a process of radical practice and can even be a deliberate strategy for transformation, both political and ...
