Current of music : elements of a radio theory / [Theodor W. Adorno] ; edited with an introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
Imprint
Cambridge : Polity, c2009
Edition
English ed
Descript
vi, 511 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Radio physiognomics -- A social critique of radio music -- Radio symphony: an experiment in theory -- Analytical study of the NBC music appreaciation hour -- 'What a music appreciation hour should be' ; expose, radio programmes on WNYC and Draft -- 'On popular music'; material and text -- Musical analyses of Hit Songs -- Radio voice -- Memorandum on Lyrics in popular music -- Experiment on: preference for material or treatment of two popular songs -- Problem of experimentation on music psychology -- Note on classification -- On the use of elaborate personal interviews for the Princeton Radio Research Project -- Problem of a New Type of Human Being -- Some remarks on a propaganda publication of NBC -- These about the idea and form of collaboration of the pronceton Radio Research Project