Jacques Attali, like Claude Lévi-Strauss, argues that music and musicians themselves provide a substitute for myth in contemporary culture. Attali affirmsthat music enables us to envisiona new world, which will supersede the everyday and establish a new order; it is "the herald of the future¨. For this reason musicians, Attali argues are "dangerous, disturbing and subversive,"and consequently, their history is irrevocably tied to that of repression and surveillance. The ambiguous role of the musician is analogous to that of the film director, as both are playing a double game. Both musician and director serve in the duplicitious role of "reproducer and prophet".
Mary M, Wiles - Jacques Rivette
