The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 1 (1910-1954)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 1 (1910-1954 г.)

The annual global celebration of "Yuri's Night," commemorating the April 1961 flight of Vostok 1, increases in popularity every year. As we enter the second half-century of human spaceflight, it is a time to reflect on the development of global space culture. It began in the 1950's as two distinct cultures--Soviet and American--reflecting the Cold War rivalry that fueled the Space Race. In the intervening decades there has been a blending of these two initial cultures, other nations have added their cultural voices, and the center of the emerging global space culture has shifted. National space cultures have displayed different emphases on science fiction and UFO themes versus devotion to national astronautic accomplishments. These and other factors may be leading cultural indicators of the vigour of national space efforts and their relevance to the global thrust into the final frontier.

The researcher seeks co-researchers with backgrounds in cultural anthropology and musicology with a strong interest in space history. Of particular interest is collaboration with researchers who are familiar with space-themed music from non-English speaking cultures.

At present, the music collection of nearly 1500 tracks is organized chronologically into 100 segments, each approximating the running time of a compact disc (CD), which include voice clips of important events to provide historical context. The play lists are being rolled out incrementally as research continues. Most of the music can be found online and downloaded free of charge. In addition, a library of song lyrics is in development.

This is music to fly to Mars by. If you listened to one hour every day, you would almost be there at the end of this collection!

CD 1

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	Signal From Mars	John Lacalle's Band	1910
2	Celebration on the Planet Mars	Raymond Scott Quintet	1937
3	Invasion From Mars - The Martian Emerges	Mercury Theatre on the Air	1938
4	Invasion From Mars - Black Smoke in New York	Mercury Theatre on the Air	1938
5	Man From Mars	Artie Shaw	1939
6	Rocket Ship to Mars	Les Brown's Band of Reknown	1939
7	Flying Saucer Recovered	ABC News	1947
8	When You See Those Flying Saucers	Buchanan Brothers	1947
9	Dedicatory Piece to the Crew and Passengers of the First Experimental Rocket Express to the Moon	Raymond Scott Quintet	1948
10	Rocket Boogie	Pete Johnson	1948
11	Мы люди большого полёта We Are a People Flying High	Хор ВР СССР Choir VR USSR	1949
12	Moon Dreams	Miles Davis	1949
13	Destination Moon	Nat King Cole	1950
14	In My Real Gone Rocket	Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats	1951
15	Flying Saucer Boogie	Eddie Cletro	1952
16	Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship	Hank Snow	1953
17	Rocket to the Moon	Moon Mullican	1953
18	In Other Words	Kaye Ballard	1954
19	Space Guitar	Johnny Watson	1954