Jimmy Buffett is a tiki lover - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Oct 4, 2007 5:58 AM Pang! Whizzz! Ouch!....no easy Jimmy Buffet converts here. But as Vern's link shows, anybody as creative as he has some good influences, too. And the man created something for himself and others, nobody is denying that here. And I am sure his contribution to the devolution of Tiki culture was not intentional, and he does like Martin Denny's music. But he's his own thing, and Tiki is another, simply put. And that "other" that Tiki is is a very fragile thing, and we feel very protective of it because. The mention of Leonard Bernstein brings up another interesting bit of Polynesian pop history: Early in his career, Lenny wrote a little opera entitled "Trouble in Tahiti", which is one of the few examples of a high brow artist actually taking notice of the Poly pop trend in its own day. Of course he used it as a metaphor for bourgeois kitsch culture, New Yorker intellectual he was. :)

Pang! Whizzz! Ouch!....no easy Jimmy Buffet converts here. But as Vern's link shows, anybody as creative as he has some good influences, too. And the man created something for himself and others, nobody is denying that here. And I am sure his contribution to the devolution of Tiki culture was not intentional, and he does like Martin Denny's music. But he's his own thing, and Tiki is another, simply put. And that "other" that Tiki is is a very fragile thing, and we feel very protective of it because.

The mention of Leonard Bernstein brings up another interesting bit of Polynesian pop history:
Early in his career, Lenny wrote a little opera entitled "Trouble in Tahiti", which is one of the few examples of a high brow artist actually taking notice of the Poly pop trend in its own day. Of course he used it as a metaphor for bourgeois kitsch culture, New Yorker intellectual he was. :)

Post #336373 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 4, 2007 5:58 AM