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A Song for the Cosmos: Blind Willie Johnson and Voyager’s Golden Record

Jan Lower

Blind Willie Johnson’s biography as a blues guitarist is set beside the 1977 NASA launch of the Voyager spacecraft. Each spacecraft carried a Golden Record intended to represent Earth in the cosmos. Johnson’s music is linked to that record. The account also traces the astrophysicists, writers, and artists who made it, using dark, somber graphic art; back matter follows the main text.

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Themes
Art And Creativity · History · Music · Space And Astronomy
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9781568463629
Language
English
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