Radio’s technical properties determine music’s social meaning for listeners.

Evidence

An analysis of the production must take first place. It was necessary `to make it clear, and to verify the fact, that the technical qualities of musical phenomena on radio represent the key to their social significance’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 991

Categorization

• XREF: Prefigures Adorno’s later broadcasting studies and Benjamin’s technological-reproduction theses. — connects to: Music’s forms and listener attention reflect the social status of their performers and public — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 54; Communication technology shapes culture through interests, symbols, and community — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 622

Broader Connections

• Communication technology shapes culture through interests, symbols, and community #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 622