CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-2: Simulacrum, Bourgeoisie, Minstrel
17 Jan 2017
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Noise the political economy of music (jacques attali) 3-21;46-55. Music, an immaterial pleasure turned commodity, now heralds a society of the sign, of the immaterial up for sale, of the social relation unified in money. In the last twenty years, music has undergone yet another transformation. This mutation forecasts a change in social relations. Material production has been supplanted by the exchange of signs. Music, as a mirror of society, calls this truism to our attention: society is much more than economistic categories, marxist or otherwise, would have us believe. Music is more than an object of study: it is a way of perceiving the world. In the face of the growing ambiguity of the signs being used and exchanged, the most well-established concepts are crumbling and every theory is wavering. It reflects the manufacture of society; it constitutes the audible waveband of the vibrations and signs that make up society.
