The Popular Music of the Space Age: CD 80 (2004)

Популярная мусыка космического веча:
CD 80 (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 80

	Selection Title	Performer	Release Year
1	Star Wars Cantina	Richard Cheese	2004
2	Планета Planet	Саша З. Sasha Z.	2004
3	Space Lion	Seatbelts	2004
4	Fly Me to the Moon	Wallys Swing	2004
5	Space Dirt	Space Trucker	2004
6	Moons of Jupiter	Steve Ball, Paul O'Rear and Pat Mastelotto	2004
7	Space Oddity	Tulus	2004
8	Столкновение в космосе Collision in Space	Галина Яшина и Доминиа Бойкова Galina Yashina and Dominika Bojkova	2004
9	Saw a Satellite	Tony Carey	2004
10	Low Orbit	Vampire Rodents	2004
11	Space Rock	Vikramjit Banerjee	2004
12	Sexy Astronaut	Volumen	2004
13	Rings of Saturn	Wataka	2004
14	Rings of Saturn	Steve Ball, Paul O'Rear and Pat Mastelotto	2004
15	Fly Me to the Moon	Westlife	2004
16	Apollo 17	Yellow Sunshine	2004
17	Where Is the X-38?	Phenomenauts	2004