"Music runs parallel to human society, is structured like it, and changes when it does." It is our "collective memory of the social order."
"Its styles and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code."
"Its styles and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code."
(Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music)
