Jean-Jacques Nattiez Quote

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be


Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (ed. Princeton University Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780691027142


The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass...

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass...

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass...

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass...