Post #400772 by tiki mick on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 11:26 AM

I think he is right when it comes to the music part of his statement.

But I think that when it comes to "tiki" culture, literally, you wrote the book.

Though it is true that a tiki is really just a sort of totem pole, I think you pretty much defined "tiki" as the name of a style of art/music/culture and even architecture.

And when a tiki newbie first reads your book, they go "aha!" so THATs what it is all about!!
At least that's what I thought when my sister first bought me the book. I did not know what the scene was called at the time. And I had been listening to Arthur Lyman records (and all the other exotic themed recordings..cuban..latin american, african, middle eastern, asian,) and lusting for fake cantonese food since I was 5!
I grew up here in socal, and always wondered why small motels looked so cool, and remember the tiki, space age and googie buildings all around Disneyland is the early 70s. I just never knew there was an actual word for all of this fun stuff. It is my opinion that you provided us with that word. Which is "tiki".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2008-08-12 11:38 ]