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I was enthralled by learning about the Voyager Golden record and decided to listen to another podcast about it from “Stuff You Should Know” called “How the Voyager Golden Records Work”. Towards the end of the clip, one of the hosts states: “You cannot represent humanity without the contribution of African-American music which was basically the birth of all popular music with blues, jazz and Rock’n’Roll.” I agree with this statement and decided to include two of the three African-American artists. I excluded Chuck Berry because of his sexual misconduct convictions… yes, very cancel culture\/21st century of me (link<\/a> if you are interested).<\/p>\n

Carl Sagan and his contemporaries had an impossible task of finding tracks to fill an LP to represent the human experience. I also found it a challenge to take their list and trim it down to a list of only ten. In addition to the previous African-American artists, I decided to pick diverse songs (there were too many Euro-centric titles), and ones that I, quite subjectively, would have found amazing if I were an extra-terrestrial coming across this artifact. As you can see in my map, I wasn’t very successful in choosing songs from all four corners of the globe…<\/p>\n

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Top 10 List:<\/p>\n