Post #693730 by OnyaBirri on Mon, Sep 16, 2013 4:15 PM

Of course, as has been said, it's interesting but kind of "water under the bridge" since none of these terms were used at the time anyway.

I don't think anyone was using the word "tiki" to apply to music back then, but "exotica" was certainly used. For example, the liner notes to the Chico Hamilton LP "Gongs East" refer to the title track as "exotica." Similarly, Columbia inner sleeves from the early 1960s list an "exotica" category, although many of the things they list are not what we would classify as "exotica" today. So, the term was being used in a generic way even back then.