スペース・エイジ・ポップ(Space age pop)は、1950年代と1960年代の宇宙時代におけるメキシコやアメリカの作曲家やソングライターに関連するポップスやイージーリスニングといった音楽のサブジャンル。バチェラー・パッド・ミュージック (Bachelor Pad Music)またはラウンジ・ミュージックとしても知られ[1]、この時代の精神や、戦後の強力な経済とテクノロジー・ブームに基づいた楽観主義、および人類の宇宙進出初期における興奮に触発されたものとなっている[2][3]。ジャンルの起源となるアルバム、日付、年は正確に把握されていないが、プロデューサーのアーウィン・チューシドは、その全盛期を「ほぼ1954年から1963年まで、ハイファイの夜明けからビートルズ到来までの間」と特定している[4]。
^Pulse (Monthly music digest of Tower Records/Video) #164 October 1997 Page 57 Article: "Catalog Rolling: How Record Labels Decide What Titles to Re-Release" (article begins on page 42)
^ ab"the 1950s and 1960s - an era obsessed with technological advancements and new frontiers. The covers depict happy families, comfortable homes, and cocktail parties. Space Age Pop is the musical interpretation of these dreams. It comprises the eerie, mesmerizing sounds of Mood music, the Polynesian, Hawaiian, Caribbean, and jungle melodies of Exotica; the hi-fidelity and stereo-inspired sounds of bachelor pad music; and the dream, seductive rhapsodies of cocktail tunes." Page 1, Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz and Lenny Dee, St. Martin's Press Music/Songbooks, 1999, ISBN0-312-20133-8
^"Space Age Pop developed out of America's insatiable appetite for the new and improved, providing grown-ups with the music they wanted: seductive moods, primitive beats, and fantastic effects.", Page 6, Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz and Lenny Dee, St. Martin's Press Music/Songbooks, 1999, ISBN0-312-20133-8
^Borgerson, Janet (2017). Designed for hi-fi living : the vinyl LP in midcentury America. Schroeder, Jonathan E., 1962-. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN9780262036238. OCLC958205262
^"The Beatles 1967 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is often cited as the first concept album. But Space Age Pop artists were recording them as soon as the LP came out in the late 1940s.", Page 10, Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz and Lenny Dee, St. Martin's Press Music/Songbooks, 1999, ISBN0-312-20133-8
^"Between 1957 and the introduction of quadraphonic (four-channel) recordings in the 1970s, Space Age Pop artists made stereo an essential factor in choosing instruments and composing their music.", Page 10, Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz and Lenny Dee, St. Martin's Press Music/Songbooks, 1999, ISBN0-312-20133-8