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Author Adinolfi, Francesco, 1960-

Title Mondo exotica : sounds, visions, obsessions of the cocktail generation / Francesco Adinolfi ; edited and translated by Karen Pinkus with Jason Vivrette
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 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?
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305), discography (p. 307-355) , and index
Notes English
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Subject Popular music -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism
Popular music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism
Exoticism in music.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Exoticism in music.
Popmusik
Popular music.
Exotismus
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Pinkus, Karen
Vivrette, Jason
ISBN 9780822389088
0822389088
9786613022776
6613022772
Other Titles Mondo exotica. English