Adinolfi Mondo Exotica

Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8908-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 375 Seiten

An encyclopedic account of the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age/Cold War period and the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adinolfi, Francesco

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pinkus, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface / Karen Pinkus vii

1. The Tiki Hour 1

2. Mondo Exotica 17

3. Exotic Fragments 34

4. The Laboratory of Dr. Les Baxter 45

5. Martin Denny: The Frog and the Prince 57

6. The Age of the Grand Expositions 67

7. Cocktails All Around 78

8. The Tribes of Exotica 96

9. A Venus in the Lounge 111

10. Destination: Space-Age Pop 121

11. The Moon in Stereo 145

12. Crime Jazz 168

13. Shaken and Stirred 180

14. Italian Style, from Spies to Exotica-Erotica 192

15. Italy's Exotic Adventures 211

16. Lounge Italia 226

17. La Dolce Vita 235

18. Hangovers? 262

Notes 267

Discography 307

Index 355

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Adinolfi is an Italian journalist and radio host. He oversees the production of “Ultrasuoni,” a weekly music supplement in Il Manifesto, one of Italy’s daily newspapers, and he hosts the radio show Popcorner, a mix of electro lounge, funk, and ultrabossa. Previously, he hosted Ultrasuoni Cocktail, a cult hit program on Rai Radio 2, Italy’s national station. The author of the book Suoni dal ghetto: La musica rap dalla strada alle hit-parade, he has written for magazines including Melody Maker, Sounds, and Record Mirror (Great Britain); Revoluciones Por Minuto (Spain), Music Express (Canada), Juke (Australia); and Crossbeat (Japan). Karen Pinkus is Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism. Jason Vivrette is a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.