Adorno’s radio-music essays all attacked American radio and society.

Evidence

The other three essays were A Social Critique of Radio Music' (originally a lecture given for the staff of the Radio Project in 1939), which contained Adorno's basic ideas and was published in 1945 in the Kenyon Review; On Popular Music’, published in 1941 in SPSS; and a study of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour, which remained unpublished, but was later included in part in a German essay on `Appreciated Music’. All of these essays included damning criticisms of American radio and the American social system. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s Princeton Radio Research Project years and to Lazarsfeld’s empiricist project, a key institutional episode in Critical Theory’s American exile. — connects to: Adorno outlined a dialectical and social theory of broadcasting to critique commercial radio. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 261; Adorno’s listener theory condemned the very victims it was criticizing society for harming — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 267; Adorno’s American-written essay attacked commodified music and rebutted Benjamin’s optimism about film. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 576 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno outlined a dialectical and social theory of broadcasting to critique commercial radio. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 261; Adorno’s listener theory condemned the very victims it was criticizing society for harming — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 267; Adorno’s American-written essay attacked commodified music and rebutted Benjamin’s optimism about film. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 576 (+1 more)