Meeting Music's Nostradamus
Nearly forty years ago, French polymath Jacques Attali wrote a book called "Noise" which predicted a "crisis of proliferation" for recorded music - in which its value would plummet...
bbc article: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4DPlqbH9FllrH4sR6494hhf/meeting-musics-nostradamus
far more interesting actual book (pdf) published in 1976:
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Attali_Jacques_Noise_The_Political_Economy_of_Music.pdf
skip the foreword and at least read the first chapter. x
'For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world.
It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing.
It is not legible, but audible.'
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