Exotica
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Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name 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.[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]
Exotica | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | 1950s, United States |
Typical instruments | Conga, bongos, vibes, Indonesian and Burmese gongs, boobams, Tahitian log, Chinese bell tree, and Japanese kotos |
Derivative forms | Lounge music |
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Audio sample | |
"Quiet Village," by Martin Denny | |