Post #773018 by Hakalugi on Wed, Feb 15, 2017 5:06 PM

Does it have to be literature? Here's a video with some potentially useful first hand account interviews...

The DVD of Tiki: Vol. 1: Paradise Lost....
"Ready for some armchair traveling? Grab a cocktail and fly with us to the most exotic chapter in American Pop Culture: The Tiki Era! Relieve the rise and fall of Polynesian Pop. Be there. See the places and the people. Hear the stories from the eye witnesses and real tiki aficionados like Martin Denny, the Bali Hai Boys, Leroy Schmaltz & Bob van Oosting, Eric Askew, Sven Kirsten, Otto von Stroheim, Shag, Bosko, Beachbum Berry and many more.
This DVD explores the origins of the myths of the South Seas paradise and follows a nation on their transition from the Puritan 1950s to the sexual revolution of the 70s. The heyday of Tiki offered a wild island lifestyle with the exotic sounds and intoxicating concoctions without endangering the given moral and social rules at the time.
Chapters: South Pacific & Michener,Escapism,Thor Heyerdahl, The 50th State, Donn the Beachcomber vs. Trader Vic, Oceanic Arts, Eli Hedley, Walt Disney, Black Velvet, The Bali Hai Boys, In the Pacific, Hapa Haole, Mele & Exotica and The Downfall Of Tiki"
(Color, documentary, English, 95 minutes)

Here's one link:
http://www.myriahsbazaar.com/THE-DVD-OF-TIKI-VOL-1-PARADISE-LOST-p/v534d.htm