When Songwriters Were Bitten With The Space-Travel Bug
"The Industrial Revolution had a significant impact on allusions to space in music, says Sally Childs-Helton, an ethnomusicologist at Butler University. ... 'We have heard songs that date back to Tin Pan Alley and earlier, back to the turn of the 19th century.'" NPR 02/09/10

Posted February 10, 2010 06:16 AM