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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
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Premise sounds good until you find Atali jumping through the extremes of employing a rigid/ mechanistic type of Marxist analysis and non-scientific postructuralist 'readings'
Case in point: Atali equates noise to the raw, untamed violence beyond social order. Musical movements like Russolo' futurism are revolutionary for emancipating noise from the bourgeois romantic musical tradition. But this kind of analysis cannot account for the contemporary "noise" aesthetic common among artists regardless of political leaning. The connection between the sonic arts and its inherent politics is not as clear-cut as Atali claims them to be.
Case in point: Atali equates noise to the raw, untamed violence beyond social order. Musical movements like Russolo' futurism are revolutionary for emancipating noise from the bourgeois romantic musical tradition. But this kind of analysis cannot account for the contemporary "noise" aesthetic common among artists regardless of political leaning. The connection between the sonic arts and its inherent politics is not as clear-cut as Atali claims them to be.
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Karlo Mikhail
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Jan 07, 2014 03:51PM
wrote on cebuano rock as my college thesis but it was mostly trash full of canned truths churned out by humanities. can you happen to recommend good books on the political economy of music?
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the internet says that atali's book is one of the most authoritative when in comes to a discussion on the political economy of music, so I guess you can definitely start with his book. I'm currently reading this one
which as far as I have read is a more historical take.
