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Noise: The Political Economy of Music

By Jacques Attali

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN
978-0-8166-1286-4, 978-0-8166-1287-1, 0816612862
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11342672 bytes)
Series
Theory and history of literature
Pages
179\190
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00

Description

“Noise is a model of cultural historiography. . . . In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today.” SubStance“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. 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 soundscapes of the western continuum that express structurally the course of social development.” EthnomusicologyJacques Attali is the author of numerous books, including Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order and Labyrinth in Culture and Society

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