Current of music
Subtitle: elements of a radio theory
By: [Theodor W. Adorno] ; edited with an introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
Contributors: Hullot-Kentor, Robert
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Polity; Polity Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780745642857; 9780745642864
Subjects: Radio and music; Music and technology; Philosophy; Philosophy and aesthetics; History and criticism; Radio broadcasting; Music; Performance; Radio music
Notes: First published in German and English: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2006, under title: Current of music.

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. [481]-485), and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction. Second salvage : prolegomenon to a reconstruction of Current of music; title: Radio physiognomies; title: A social critique of radio music; title: The radio symphony : an experiment in theory; title: Analytical study of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour; title: 'What a music appreciation hour should be' : exposé, radio programmes on WNYC and Draft; title: 'On popular music' : material and text; title: Musical analyses of hit songs; title: Other materials. Radio voice ; Memorandum on lyrics in popular music ; Experiment on : preference for material or treatment of two popular songs ; Problem of experimentation in 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 ; Theses about the idea and form of collaboration of the Princeton Radio Research Project.