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Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a non-fiction book by French economist and scholar, Jacques Attali.Attali's essential argument in Noise: The Political Economy of Music (French title: Bruits: essai sur l'economie politique de la musique) is Read More..

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Description	Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a non-fiction book by French economist and scholar, Jacques Attali.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. For Marxist critics, this idea is nothing new. The novelty of Attali's work is that it reverses the traditional understandings about how revolutions in the mode of production take place:"[Attali] is the first to point out the other possible logical consequence of the “reciprocal interaction” model—namely, the possibility of a superstructure to anticipate historical developments, to foreshadow new social formations in a prophetic and annunciatory way. The argument of Noise is that music, unique among the arts for reasons that are themselves overdetermined, has precisely this annunciatory vocation; that the music of today stands both as a promise of a new, liberating mode of production, and as the menace of a dystopian possibility which is that mode of production’s baleful mirror image."Fredric Jameson, from the "Foreword" to Noise
Description	Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a non-fiction book by French economist and scholar, Jacques Attali.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. For Marxist critics, this idea is nothing new. The novelty of Attali's work is that it reverses the traditional understandings about how revolutions in the mode of production take place:"[Attali] is the first to point out the other possible logical consequence of the “reciprocal interaction” model—namely, the possibility of a superstructure to anticipate historical developments, to foreshadow new social formations in a prophetic and annunciatory way. The argument of Noise is that music, unique among the arts for reasons that are themselves overdetermined, has precisely this annunciatory vocation; that the music of today stands both as a promise of a new, liberating mode of production, and as the menace of a dystopian possibility which is that mode of production’s baleful mirror image."Fredric Jameson, from the "Foreword" to Noise

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Name	Noise: The Political Economy of Music
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Authors	Jacques Attali
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Translator	Brian Massumi
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Genre	Non-fiction
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Language	French / English
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Country	France
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Media_type	Print
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Isbn	0-8166-1286-2
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Oclc	11549283
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Publisher	Presses Universitaires de France/University of Minnesota Press (US)
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