Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II.[1] The term was coined by Simon "Si" Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and board chairman, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album Exotica.[2] The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz, the non-native, pseudo experience of insular Oceania, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, the Amazon basin, the Andes, the Caribbean and tribal Africa.[3] Denny described the musical style as "a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient...what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like...it's pure fantasy though."[4] While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the "musical impressions" of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical "shangri-las" dreamt of by armchair safari-ers.[3]

  1. ^ Borgerson, Janet (2017). Designed for hi-fi living : the vinyl LP in midcentury America. Schroeder, Jonathan E., 1962-. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262036238. OCLC 958205262.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ "TECHNICOLOR PARADISE: RHUM RHAPSODIES & OTHER EXOTIC DELIGHTS". Americanstandardtime.com. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference hipwax was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Hayward, Philip (1999-09-01). Widening the horizon: exoticism in post-war popular music. Southern Cross University. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-86462-047-4.