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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
Jacques Attali, a French economist who was a Special Counsellor to President François Mitterand, proposes a number of theories on the political economy of music in this book, some quite bold and difficult to accept at first encounter, others more readily convincing.
Sep 14, 2015 · Noise: The Political Economy of Music. by Jacques Attali (1977) QUOTES: Our sicence has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited.
Feb 24, 1977 · When Attali is focused on the political economy of nineteenth and twentieth century music, he does offer fresh insight into the economic exploitation of music. The history of copyright ownership, technical reproduction, commercial performance and innovation all reveal ways in which external economic factors drive music’s development in the ...
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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.
The historical changes in music have presented a system of political economy. What happens in music can predict the power systems in society. In connection
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...
