CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: African-American Music, Truism, Lection
23 Oct 2016
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C mns 321 r eadings week 2. No is e : the p o litic al e c o no my o f mus ic attali (p. 3-21 & 46-55) C hap te r 1 lis tening. We must learn to judge a society more by its sounds, by its art, and by its festivals, than by its statistics. Today, music is unavoidable, as if, in a world now devoid of meaning, a background noise were increasingly necessary to give people a sense of security: today, wherever there is music, there is money. Music is an immaterial pleasure turned commodity. If it is true that the political organization of the twentieth century is rooted in the political thought of the nineteenth, the latter is almost entirely present in embryonic form in the music of the eighteenth century. It obliges us to invent categories and new dynamics to regenerate social theory, which today has become crystallized, entrapped, moribund.
