The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 59 (1997)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 59 (1997 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 vigor 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 59

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	To the Moon and Back	Savage Garden	1997
2	Alien Attack	S.P.O.C.K	1997
3	Space Avengers Return to Base	2 Skinnee J's	1997
4	Ballad of William Robinson	Bill Mumy	1997
5	Astronaut	Blind	1997
6	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny	1997
7	Astronaut	G. Love and Special Sauce	1997
8	STS-81 - Launch	Mission Audio	1997
9	To the Moon and Back (escape into hyper space remix)	Savage Garden	1997
10	Astrogirl's Dilemma	S.P.O.C.K	1997
11	Star Trek First Contact Theme	Grady Nichols	1997
12	One More Astronaut	I Mother Earth	1997
13	Orbit	Jesse Cook	1997
14	E.T. Phone Home	S.P.O.C.K	1997
15	Space Monkey	John Prine	1997
16	Orbit	Jorge al Najjar	1997