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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
Abstract Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali's theory of … Expand
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.
As a political tool, music is an implicit pride as scripture is dedicated to explicit breeding. Harmony in music becomes the organizer of the noise/violence, maintaining the social order,
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.
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.
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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
