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Description: Space Age Pop was popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s, a time period of economic prosperity and never before seen advances in science. This is what this genre of music represented, that feel good easy listening feeling from the dawn of the Space Age.
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Space Age Pop or Space Age Bachelor Pad Music is a form of Lounge music, a genre that has a variety of off shoots and has inspired many since it's inception. The purpose of Lounge music was to make the listener feel happy and take them away to another place. A sound that is meant to transport you to a tropical beach, outer space, or somewhere exotic like the jungle. In fact a similar form of Lounge music and Space Age Pop is a genre known as Exotica. This style focused on the fantasy that many Americans had
Space Age Pop and Exotica are essentially the more adventurous styles of Lounge music. Often the known musicians in Lounge music would play both genres. Esquivel played a mix of all these easy listening styles. What makes these styles so quirky are their instrumental and vocal arrangements. Space Age Pop often included very talented piano and keyboard playing, exotic drums and percussion, bells, sometimes silly vocals or nonsense words sung in chorus, and often string orchestration to create a dense musical
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