Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali, ISBN-13: 978-0816612871

Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali, ISBN-13: 978-0816612871

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• Publisher: ‎ Univ Of Minnesota Press (June 30, 1985)
• Language: ‎ English
• 196 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0816612870
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0816612871

“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.” Ethnomusicology

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Fredric Jameson vii
Chapter One Listening 3
Chapter Two Sacrificing 21
Chapter Three Representing 46
Chapter Four Repeating 87
Chapter Five Composing 133
Afterword: The Politics of Silence and Sound
by Susan McClary 149
Notes 161
Index 171

Jacques 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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