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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
