The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1938–1950

Theodor W. Adorno

Music, mass culture and the American study of prejudice

Chronology

1938–1950

193819441950
2 dated events
  1. Adorno leaves Europe for America Reported · Source 1, p. 239; PDF pp. 492–493
  2. The Authoritarian Personality is published Reported · Source 2, Copyright page, EPUB OEBPS/03_Copy.xhtml

Activity

Radio audiences

Adorno left Europe on February 16, 1938, and met Paul Lazarsfeld in New York on February 26. Lazarsfeld directed the Princeton Radio Research Project . Adorno became head of its music study. [1], pp. 238–240

Prejudice research

Adorno worked on The Authoritarian Personality with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. Horkheimer’s preface states that the four shared responsibility and credit. Adorno added social theory to the study of personality and analyzed parts of the interviews. [2], Horkheimer preface, staff and assignments paragraphs

The study’s F-scale used questions to measure attitudes linked to authoritarian rule. Its core ideas belonged to the team as a whole. [2], Horkheimer preface, collective-authorship paragraph