Mondo Exotica : Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation /

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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 rad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adinolfi, Francesco, 1960-
Other Authors: Vivrette, Jason, Pinkus, Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popmusik
Exotismus
Popular music.
Exoticism in music.
Exotisme dans la musique.
Musique populaire > 1961-1970 > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > 1951-1960 > Histoire et critique.
Popular music > 1961-1970 > History and criticism.
Popular music > 1951-1960 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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