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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 ...
- Jacques Attali, Brian Massumi, Frederic Jameson, Susan McClary
- 1977
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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
