Have We Just Experienced the Latest Wave of a Tiki Resurgence, and resulting Devolution? - General Tiki

BB Bruddah Bear Member Los Angeles Basin, Westside Joined: Apr 07, 2011 Posts: 629	BB Bruddah Bear Posted posted on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:12 PM Some important dates are missing from that time line. c.1885-1914: Around the turn of the last century artists like Gauguin and Picasso were influenced by primitive art, so much so Picasso buys a Marquesian tiki in 1910. 1915: Hawaiian performers demonstrate Polynesian dance to the exotic strains of Hawaiian-style guitar and ukulele music at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, setting off a Hawaiian music craze in the U.S. (and Britain) that lasted through the 1920s. The birth of Exotica? 1916: The Victor Record Company (forerunner to RCA Victor) sold more Hawaiian music recordings than any other type of music. 1933: Prohibition ends, the floodgates open for exotic tropical drinks to be created in establishments with equally exotic decor. Pre-Tiki has arrived. Bear

Some important dates are missing from that time line.

c.1885-1914: Around the turn of the last century artists like Gauguin and Picasso were influenced by primitive art, so much so Picasso buys a Marquesian tiki in 1910.

1915: Hawaiian performers demonstrate Polynesian dance to the exotic strains of Hawaiian-style guitar and ukulele music at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, setting off a Hawaiian music craze in the U.S. (and Britain) that lasted through the 1920s. The birth of Exotica?

1916: The Victor Record Company (forerunner to RCA Victor) sold more Hawaiian music recordings than any other type of music.

1933: Prohibition ends, the floodgates open for exotic tropical drinks to be created in establishments with equally exotic decor. Pre-Tiki has arrived.

Bear

Post #587173 by Bruddah Bear on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:12 PM