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Summer 1996 • Vol. XVIII No. 3/4 • Kenyon Review Classics |

A Social Critique of Radio Music

By T. W. Adorno

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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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