Space activities and global popular music culture
Abstract
During the "space age" era, space activities appear increasingly as a theme in Western popular music, as they do in popular culture generally. In combination with the electronics and tele-communications revolution, "pop/rock" music has grown explosively during the space age to become an effectively global culture. From this base a number of trends are emerging in the pattern of influences that space activities have on pop music. The paper looks at the use of themes and imagery in pop music; the role of space technology in the modern "globalization" of pop music; and current and future links between space activities and pop music culture, including how public space programmes are affected by its influence on popular attitudes.
- Publication:
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Acta Astronautica
- Pub Date:
- 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0094-5765(94)90065-5
- Bibcode:
- 1994AcAau..32..143W