The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 67 (2000)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 67 (2000 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 67

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	Holosuite Woman	Warp 11	2000
2	Through the Wormhole	Ayreon	2000
3	Departure	Space Cossacks	2000
4	Earth Jam	Bela Fleck and the Flecktones	2000
5	STS-101 - Launch	Mission Audio	2000
6	Hey Gagarin	Jean-Michel Jarre	2000
7	Third Planet From the Sun	Jennifer Avalon	2000
8	Make It So 'TOS'	Warp 11	2000
9	Ten Thousand Light Years	Phenomenauts	2000
10	Star Trek	Judy Roberts	2000
11	Космос Space	Ленинград Leningrad	2000
12	STS-106 - Launch	Mission Audio	2000
13	Out of the White Hole	Ayreon	2000
14	I Always Knew I Would Die Alone	Warp 11	2000
15	Sea of Tranquility	Space Cossacks	2000
16	O Astronauta Bibaço Astronaut Bibaço	Madmud	2000
17	Montalban	Warp 11	2000
18	Fly to the Moon	Modern Talking	2000
19	Within One Universe There Are Millions	Man or Astro-Man?	2000