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Seattle Museum Presents Spaced Out

Experience Music Project, Seattle will run an exhibition named 'Spaced Out: The Final Frontier in Album Covers' from August 15, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

Organized by EMP|SFM, Spaced Out: The Final Frontier in Album Covers presents 117 spaced-themed record album covers released between the 1940s and 1969—the dawn of the space age.

In the post-war years, humanity seemed on the verge of taking a giant leap into space. Futuristic themes filled popular culture. Space was the place, and everyone wanted to be there.

Musicians thronged to the fad, and space themes invaded album covers of every genre including pop, jazz, folk and classical.

These album covers embody the fantasy and mystery of space—what we imagined it to be, what we hoped it would be. -- www.empsfm.org

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