Contents

Editor’s Introduction: Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music

1  Radio Physiognomics

2  A Social Critique of Radio Music

3  The Radio Symphony: An Experiment in Theory

4  Analytical Study of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour

5  ‘What a Music Appreciation Hour Should Be’: Exposé, Radio Programmes on WNYC and Draft

6  ‘On Popular Music’: Material and Text

7  Musical Analyses of Hit Songs

Other Materials

A  The Radio Voice

B  Memorandum on Lyrics in Popular Music

C  Experiment on: Preference for Material or Treatment of Two Popular Songs

D  The Problem of Experimentation in Music Psychology

E  Note on Classification

F  On the Use of Elaborate Personal Interviews for the Princeton Radio Research Project

G  The Problem of a New Type of Human Being

H  Some Remarks on a Propaganda Publication of NBC

I   Theses about the Idea and Form of Collaboration of the Princeton Radio Research Project

Discography

Notes

Index