Mondo exotica : sounds, visions, obsessions of the cocktail generation
Francesco Adinolfi (Author), Karen Pinkus (Translator), Jason Vivrette (Translator)
Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them - Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi provides extraordinary detail about artists, songs, albums, and soundtracks, while also presenting an incisive analysis of the ethnic and cultural stereotypes embodied in exotica and related genres. In this encyclopedic account of films, books, TV programs, mixed drinks, and above all music, he balances a respect for exotica's artistic innovations with a critical assessment of what its popularity says about postwar society in the United States and Europe, and what its revival implies today
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 361 pages ; 25 cm
9780822341321, 9780822341567, 9780822389088, 0822341328, 0822341565, 0822389088
179838406
The Tiki hour
Mondo exotica
Exotic fragments
The laboratory of Dr. Les Baxter
Martin Denny: the frog and the prince
The age of the grand expositions
Cocktails all around
The tribes of exotica
A Venus in the lounge
Destination: space-age pop
The moon in stereo
Crime jazz
Shaken and stirred
Italian style, from spies to exotica-erotica
Italy's exotic adventures
Lounge Italia
La dolce vita
Hangovers?
Translated from the Italian
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