Serial music’s claim to advancement did not translate into audience demand.

Evidence

But if serial musicwhich was regarded not only in West Germany but also internationally as music’s most advanced formwas a `flight into system’, was it not bound to become popular with audiences sooner or later? The facts proved otherwise, and Adorno was faced with the same problem he had had in his judgement of Stravinsky’s music, which had been based on a critique of ideology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 540

Categorization

• QUESTION: What would a genuinely non-ideological test of musical ‘advancement’ look like if public reception can’t supply it?
• XREF: connects to: Serial music reached only small specialist late-night radio audiences despite apparent demand. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2193; Record box-office gross does not guarantee lasting cultural relevance — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 217
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Serial music reached only small specialist late-night radio audiences despite apparent demand. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2193; Record box-office gross does not guarantee lasting cultural relevance — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 217