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.

The Political Economy of Music ... Argues that music does not reflect society; it foreshadows new social formations. Noise is a model of cultural historiography.

This is a very interesting and well conceived book. A great read for philosophy student and musician alike. It puts a new spin on the effect of music on culture ...

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The political economy of music should take as its point of departure the study of the material it highlights-noise-and its meaning at the time of the origin of.

Mar 1, 2021 · I love how this work brings together aesthetics, history, political analysis, music, and illuminates societal patterns.

“Noise is a model of cultural historiography. . . . ... The book's title refers specifically to the reception of musics that sonically rival normative social ...

Attali attempts to provide a historical investigation into the development of music from its origins in ritual through to the development of modern recording.

“For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an anticipatory abstraction of the shape of things to come.

Attali argues that the earliest essential social role of music was to serve as a substitute or simulacrum of sacrifice and perform the same function. First, he ...