Adorno used Benjamin’s constant-and-new categories to analyze popular music.

Evidence

Using topoi connected with the categories of the constant' and the new’, taken from his discussions with Benjamin, Adorno achieved trenchant analyses of popular music (a concept which he tacitly used as a synonym for light music) and of the basic strategies behind its success. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties Adorno’s popular-music analysis to his correspondence with Walter Benjamin, an intellectual lineage worth tracing across the Institute’s history. — connects to: Adorno and Benjamin independently converged on the same cultural-critique objects from opposite directions — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 348; Adorno’s central musical divide was market-oriented versus non-market music. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 554
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno and Benjamin independently converged on the same cultural-critique objects from opposite directions — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 348; Adorno’s central musical divide was market-oriented versus non-market music. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 554