Table of Contents

Preface: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music - Second Salvage.

Acknowledgments.

1 Radio Physiognomics.

2 A Social Critique of Radio Music.

3 The Radio Symphony: An Experiment in Theory.

4 Analytical Study of the NBC Appreciation Hour.

5 'What a Music Appreciation Hour Should Be. Plans for a music education program, Radio Broadcasts on WNYC and Drafts.

6 'On Popular Music' : Draft Material and Text.

7 Musical Analyses of Hit Songs.

Further material:.

A The Radio Voice.

B Memorandum on Lyrics in Popular Music.

C Experiment on: Preference for Material or Treatment of two Popular Songs.

D The Problem of Experimentation in Music Psychology.

E Note on Classification.

F On the Use of Elaborate Personal Interviews for the Princeton Radio Research Project.

G The Problem of a New Type of Human Being.

H Some Remarks on a Propaganda Publication of NBC.

I Theses about the Idea and Form of Collaboration of the Princeton Radio Research Project..

Discography.

Index of names

About the Author

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century in the areas of social theory, philosophy and aesthetics.Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor

Reviews

'Scrupulously reconstructed by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Adorno's bold and ambitious attempt to write a critical physiognomy of radio music is both a document of its time and provocation to ours.'
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley