Journal of Literature and Music Studies
JLMS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.114-122.
Print ISSN: 3134-8130; Online ISSN: 3134-8149
Journal homepage: https://www.jlmsjournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/jlwe260112lsebc
“一块边缘锋利但中心失焦的透镜”
欧其晟（Ou Qisheng）
摘要：贾克·阿达利在《噪音：音乐的政治经济学》中以“有组织的噪音”重新定义音乐本体，建构了“牺牲—再现—重复—作曲”四阶段模型，更以音乐形式变革先于社会体制转型且具有预言性质的激进命题挑战了传统经济基础与上层建筑的线性决定论。《噪音》在跨学科整合、听觉转向及文化批判方面展现出重要的范式意义，但核心概念“噪音”的表述逻辑多有矛盾导致其理论内涵始终没有彻底明确，“音乐预言论”则存在不可证伪性与因果机制模糊的致命缺陷。综合来看，《噪音》一书的启发性与局限性并存，阿达利在书中锐意进取的学术开拓尝试虽然略失严谨，但仍然为音乐社会学甚至社会文化批判领域提供了新的起点。
关键词：《噪音：音乐的政治经济学》；贾克·阿达利；文化批判
作者简介：欧其晟，香港浸会大学人文与社会科学院文学硕士。研究方向：文学与音乐的跨媒介研究。电子邮箱：frank2026bu@163.com。
Title: “A Lens with Sharp Edges but a Blurred Centre”: A Review of Jacques Attali’s Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Abstract: In Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Jacques Attali redefines musical ontology through the concept of “organized noise,” constructs a four-stage historical model of “Sacrificing–Representing–Repeating–Composing,” and advances the radical proposition that transformations in musical forms precede and possess prophetic qualities with respect to social institutional change, thereby challenging the linear determinism of the traditional base-superstructure paradigm. Noise demonstrates significant paradigmatic import in interdisciplinary integration, the auditory turn, and cultural critique; yet the core concept of “noise” is fraught with logical inconsistencies that prevent its theoretical connotations from being fully elucidated, while the “prophetic theory of music” suffers from fatal deficiencies of unfalsifiability and obscure causal mechanisms.Taken as a whole, Noise exhibits a coexistence of heuristic value and theoretical limitation: although Attali’s ambitious scholarly endeavor sacrifices a degree of analytical rigor, it nonetheless furnishes a critical point of departure for the sociology of music and, more broadly, for the field of socio-cultural critique.
Keywords: Noise: The Political Economy of Music; Jacques Attali; cultural criticism
Author Biography: Ou Qisheng, Master of Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University. Research area: cross-media studies of music and literature. E-mail: frank2026bu@163.com.
Received: 13 Mar 2026 / Revised: 28 Mar 2026 / Accepted: 10 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.
