The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 63 (1999)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 63 (1999 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 63

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	Таких не берут в космонавты! These They Do Not Take to the Cosmonauts!	неизвестный исполнитель (unknown artist)	1999
2	Ночами долго курят астрономы Long Nights Astronomers Smoking	Алексей Брунов Aleksej Brunov	1999
3	The Saga Begins	Al Yankovic	1999
4	Fly Me to the Moon	Amanda Wood	1999
5	Space	Antony DeGennaro	1999
6	The Dark Side of the Force	S.P.O.C.K	1999
7	Orbit	Berklee College of Music	1999
8	Space Station Oddity	Bob Rivers and Twisted Tunes	1999
9	Dr. McCoy	S.P.O.C.K	1999
10	STS-96 - Launch	Mission Audio	1999
11	Jupiter-6	Brent Haeseker	1999
12	Space Force	Cyber Space	1999
13	Life on Mars	Dexter Wansel	1999
14	Moon Child	Ed Abolins, Eric Ebeling, and Ivan Pongracic	1999