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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
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.
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.
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
- Jason Lee Guthrie
Noise: The Political Economy of Music. R. Radano, J. Attali, B. Massumi. Published 24 January 1989. Political Science, Art. Ethnomusicology. View via Publisher. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite. 1,392 Citations. Citation Type. More Filters. Introducing Political Ecology of Creative-Ai. A. Holzapfel. Political Science, Environmental Science.
Noise: The Political Economy of Music. 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.
