The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 78 (2004)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 78 (2004 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 78

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	Fly Me to the Moon	A. Pfeffer and L. Obregon	2004
2	Astronaut	Alan Wilkis	2004
3	Giant Asteroid	Phenomenauts	2004
4	My Space Buggy	Asleep at the Wheel	2004
5	Fly Me to the Moon	Agnetha Faltskog	2004
6	Space Oddity	Ayreon	2004
7	Пустите Меня В Космос Let Me Go Into Space	Бригадный Подряд Brigadnyj Podryad	2004
8	Gravity	Phenomenauts	2004
9	Mars Face	Christian Heinke	2004
10	SpaceShipOne - Launch	Mission Audio	2004
11	Fly Me to the Moon	Claire Littley	2004
12	Hurry Let's Go	Phenomenauts	2004
13	Space Crash	Curl	2004
14	Satellite	David Doruzka	2004
15	Mission	Phenomenauts	2004
16	Deep Space	Dj the fRont	2004
17	Песенка звездочета Song of the Astrologer	Борис Гребенщиков Аквариум и Александр Васиьев сплин Boris Grebenschikov Akvarium i Aleksandr Vasil'ev Splin	2004