Post #535967 by JOHN-O on Sun, Jun 13, 2010 12:23 PM

Thanks for the clarification on your "Lounge" defintion.

My takeaway to that is that while all Exotica and Hapa-Haole would fall into the Tiki Music definition as musical genres, the Lounge connection would be more of appropriation of the style in the proper Poly-Pop context. In other words all Exotica is Tiki Music, all traditional Hapa-Haole is Tiki Music, but not all Lounge music is Tiki Music.

So can all mid-century Surf music be considered Tiki Music? I can see how the less aggressive slower-paced tunes might qualify.

I think the problem with "Lounge" is that the term has so many definitions. It can be used to refer to an easy-listening superset that includes Space-age and Exotica as well as the Las Vegas Swing Sound popularized by the Rat Pack (Blame the Cocktail Nation). When first looking at the Tiki Music Island map, I asked myself "Does Frank Sinatra live on that Lounge island?" " :)

You can see how your following post might be confusing:

On 2010-06-12 11:05, bigbrotiki wrote:

Please play all the Lounge music you want, but it still remains just that: Lounge

"Hey, wait a minute, didn't Bigbro just include Lounge on the Tiki Sound Archipelago?"

OK, now I get it. :)