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Title: Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 16) by Jacques Attali, Brian Massumi, Susan McClary ISBN: 0-8166-1287-0 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A must read..
Comment: ... because it is so outrageous to be brilliantly thought provoking. Sometimes I think he is out to lunch and I am not confident that he understands everything he wrote. (or maybe the translation is not right.) Still, the mythology he presents is detailed and well developed and whether you agree with it or not, is fascinating.
There is a lot of coverage of European classical music in terms of "Who is paying whom" as well as the current recording industry. He also gets some things wrong, such as his coverage of Free Jazz (Carly Bley is black?), to which he nevertheless is sympathetic towards.
Therefore, I don't know how much you can trust his conclusions, but at the same time it gets the reader's mind to consider all sorts of new facets, and that is why this book is great.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Literary {wind}
Comment: Sometimes lazy people like to use phrases like "literary{wind} " to justify their inability to understand difficult topics, or to cover for their own, lacking, vocabularies. The foregoing review did just that. The fact is, sometimes precise thought demands precise language.
Anyway, this book provides valuable insight into the relationship of fringe art/music, and the future of society. Attali postulates that society is founded upon the idea that bad noise must be subverted. Therefore, all forces effecting social change, at some time, have been subverted. Given time though, they find their way into society by way of, here, music, and begin to cause change.
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, and the reciprocal relationship between art and society. Good stuff.
In closing, and in response to the previous reviewer, "college isn't taken as seriously as it once was" simply because the hallowed halls are clogged with students who readily dismiss works of sound thought because they don't like having to look up words or work for their own enlightenment.ENDs
Rating: 1
Summary: Literary Masturbation
Comment: This text was a required reading for a college course I took, and it basically summarizes why college isn't taken as seriously as it once was. This purely indulgent, pretentious work ruins any chance of an actual point with jumbled phrases such as "...neither an autonomous activity nor an automatic indicator of the economic infrastructure..." Personally, this is thoroughly unreadable and unenjoyable; it was much more of a chore to get through than it was worth. Attali needs to quit with the literary masturbation and realize that while having a large vocabulary is admirable, he should perhaps learn to "eschew obfuscation", pun fully intended.
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Title: Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Voice, Sound, and Aurality in the Arts by Douglas Kahn ISBN: 0262611724 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne ISBN: 082233013X Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer ISBN: 0892814551 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction by Kodwo Eshun ISBN: 0704380250 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music by Georgina Born, David Hesmondhalgh ISBN: 0520220846 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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