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Spring 1945 • Vol. VII No. 2 • Nonfiction |

A Social Critique of Radio Music

Some would approach the problem of radio by formulating questions of this type: If we confront such and such a sector of the population with such and such a type of music, what reactions may we expect? How can these reactions be measured and expressed statistically? Or: How many sectors of the population have been brought into contact with music and how do they respond to it?

What intention lies behind such questions? This approach falls into two major operations:

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The son of an opera singer, T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist. In 1924, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Frankfurt and went on to become a renowned essayist. In addition to training as a concert pianist, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is considered to be one of the foremost thinkers on aesthetics and philosophy of the twentieth century.

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