Post #355524 by leisure master on Thu, Jan 17, 2008 9:17 AM

Hey - anyone know anything about this new book coming out in April?

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

Holy crap!

I just stumbled on it while browsing Amazon. There will be cloth-bound and paperback versions, but there were not many other details though...

http://www.amazon.com/Mondo-Exotica-Obsessions-Cocktail-Generation/dp/0822341565/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200589768&sr=8-4

Here is a link to the publisher's website with a descrition of the book (below) that really got my mouth watering!

http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=1171208806&Bmain.Btitle_option=1&Bmain.Btitle=Mondo+Exotica&Bmain.Subtitle=%3A+Sounds%2C+Visions%2C+Obsessions+of+the+Cocktail+Generation

"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/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."