The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1937–1937

Paul Lazarsfeld

Audience research and a critic of mass culture

Chronology

1937–1937

193719371937
1 dated events
  1. Rockefeller Foundation approves radio-project grant Reported · Source 1, pp. 238–239; PDF pp. 490–493

Ideas

Lazarsfeld’s project studied radio audiences. Adorno brought philosophical and musical criticism to that work. The partnership created a practical question: how could a broad critique of culture be joined to the study of actual listeners? Wiggershaus describes the tension. [1], pp. 238–243