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Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth
By Chua, Daniel K.L. & Alexander Rehding
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- 9781942130536
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2021 | Arts & Humanities
This ambitious work opens its inquiry into the nature and meaning of music from an unusual perspective: outer space. The Golden Record (a pair of phonographic records launched with the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in 1977) becomes the launch pad for a study of music theory and music media that attempts to be truly universal. Chua (music, Univ. of Hong Kong) and Rehding (music, Harvard Univ.) are less interested in speculatin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
