Political Economy
Definition
Relationships between politics and economics
Current examples
Copyright
Subject to international law. ...
Positivism
Adopts ‘consensus theory’ positions like:
Political and economic action is taken to be towards the general social good. ...
So in terms of political economy, Adorno sees an increase in control by exploiters rather than by artists, which leads to an abandonment of the values of art. ... ”
Attali
In his 1977 book Noise The Political Economy of Music, Attali, a French economist who was a Special Counsellor to President François Mitterand, says that changes in the basic character of music throughout history have foreshadowed revolutions in political and economic structures, from which he concludes that changes in music today predict the future shape of our society. “the political economy of music is not marginal, but premonitory. ... So music hs always been an instrument of social (political) control. ...
He says that musical practice was the first to develop a political economy of the immaterial and the first to face the challenge of an economy without quantity.
Kelley
Norman Kelley, in Rhythm and Business, looks at the political economy of black music.