60s space age full#

This music blended the elements of Afro-Cuban rhythms, unusual instrumentations, environmental sounds, and lush romantic themes from Hollywood movies, topped off with evocative titles like 'Jaguar God,' into a cultural hybrid native to no place outside the San Fernando Valley. The strictest definition limits exotica to the imitations of Polynesian, Afro-Caribbean, and Hawaiian music that were produced by Les Baxter and others from the mid-1950s to the very early 1960s.

I should state up front, though, that my definition of 'Space Age Pop' can be summed up as: all of this and more. The following list offers some labels for these categories and matches some names against each.

60s space age full#

As a result, Space Age Pop is full of brilliant, bizarre, and exciting sounds, which are particularly striking to ears accustomed to the stereotypes that populate the more familiar genres.Īmong these outcasts, though, there are some common features that a simple categorization can help identify. It's in some middle ground between all of these, which means it's populated with the outcasts from other well-established genres. It's often too esoteric or extreme to be called pop. It's not serious or straightforward enough to be called jazz.

It's rarely simple enough in structure and instrumentation to be called rock (and certainly retains enough of a sense of humor to be disqualified as art rock). This music might be characterized most easily by what it isn't.