Exotica

Author : David Toop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotica written by David Toop and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging anecdote and biography, autobiography and interviews, fact and fiction and a characteristically eclectic selection of music, David Toop spirals us through the 20th century's guilty fascination with exotica. Notions of the exotic have long inspired musicians across the musical spectrum, from classical to ?easy listening? to rap - from Stravinsky to the Boo-Yah T.R.I.B.E. Exotica takes a look at some of the world's most witty, experimental and adventurous sound recordings while taking in the work of Les Baxter, the meaning of Carmen Miranda, leopard skin leotards, pink fluffy cubicles, elevator music, and more... Painstakingly researched and brilliantly insightful, Exotica includes interviews with Burt Bacharach, Ornette Coleman, Bill Laswell, YMO's Haroumi Hosono, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and The Boo-Yah Tribe.

Author : Aminder Dhaliwal
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465375
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyclopedia Exotica written by Aminder Dhaliwal and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica. Also serialized on instagram to her 250,000 followers, this graphic novel showcases Dhaliwal’s quick wit and astute socio-cultural criticism. In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor’s office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the majority. Whether they’re artists, parents, or yoga students, the cyclops have it tough: they face microaggressions and overt xenophobia on a daily basis. However, they are bent on finding love, cultivating community, and navigating life alongside the two-eyed majority with patience and the occasional bout of rage. Through this parallel universe, Dhaliwal comments on race, difference, beauty, and belonging, touching on all of these issues with her distinctive deadpan humour steeped in millennial references. Cyclopedia Exotica is a triumph of hilarious candor.

Author : Francesco Adinolfi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389088
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mondo Exotica written by Francesco Adinolfi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi provides extraordinary detail about artists, songs, albums, and soundtracks, while also presenting an incisive analysis of the ethnic and cultural stereotypes embodied in exotica and related genres. In this encyclopedic account of films, books, TV programs, mixed drinks, and above all music, he balances a respect for exotica’s artistic innovations with a critical assessment of what its popularity says about postwar society in the United States and Europe, and what its revival implies today. Adinolfi interviewed a number of exotica greats, and Mondo Exotica incorporates material from his interviews with Martin Denny, Esquivel, the Italian film composers Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, and others. It begins with an extended look at the postwar popularity of exotica in the United States. Adinolfi describes how American bachelors and suburbanites embraced the Polynesian god Tiki as a symbol of escape and sexual liberation; how Les Baxter’s album Ritual of the Savage (1951) ushered in the exotica music craze; and how Martin Denny’s Exotica built on that craze, hitting number one in 1957. Adinolfi chronicles the popularity of performers from Yma Sumac, “the Peruvian Nightingale,” to Esquivel, who was described by Variety as “the Mexican Duke Ellington,” to the chanteuses Eartha Kitt, Julie London, and Ann-Margret. He explores exotica’s many sub-genres, including mood music, crime jazz, and spy music. Turning to Italy, he reconstructs the postwar years of la dolce vita, explaining how budget spy films, spaghetti westerns, soft-core porn movies, and other genres demonstrated an attraction to the foreign. Mondo Exotica includes a discography of albums, compilations, and remixes.

Author : Howard C. Hughes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262082799
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensory Exotica written by Howard C. Hughes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the extra-human sensory capabilities of some animals and insects covers echolocation, internal navigation systems, and bioelectricity used by bees, birds, bats, fish, and dolphins to experience their world.

Author : Eden Bradley
Publisher : Black Lace
ISBN 13 : 9780352347176
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotica written by Eden Bradley and published by Black Lace. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Exoticaa Leave your inhibitions at the door Lilli DeForrest is hoping for a week of pampering and relaxation, but when the beautiful Rajan steps into her suite, the attraction is immediate. Rajan is her ideal lover: tender, commanding and intensely erotic. But, as Lilli is about to discover, his masterful touch is just the beginninga An utterly delicious erotic romance perfect for fans of E.L. James and Sylvia Day

Author : John Hutnyk
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745315492
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critique of Exotica written by John Hutnyk and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges academic complicity in the reification of exotica

Author : Dibyesh Anand
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913331
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geopolitical Exotica written by Dibyesh Anand and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrating on specific cultural images of the twentieth century—promulgated by novels, popular films, travelogues, and memoirs—Dibyesh Anand lays bare the strategies by which “Exotica Tibet” and “Tibetanness” have been constructed, and he investigates the impact these constructions have had on those who are being represented. Although images of Tibet have excited the popular imagination in the West for many years, Geopolitical Exotica is the first book to explore representational practices within the study of international relations. Anand challenges the parochial practices of current mainstream international relations theory and practice, claiming that the discipline remains mostly Western in its orientation. His analysis of Tibet’s status with regard to China scrutinizes the vocabulary afforded by conventional international relations theory and considers issues that until now have been undertheorized in relation to Tibet, including imperialism, history, diaspora, representation, and identity. In this masterfully synthetic work, Anand establishes that postcoloniality provides new insights into themes of representation and identity and demonstrates how IR as a discipline can meaningfully expand its focus beyond the West. Dibyesh Anand is a reader in international relations at the University of Westminster, London.

Author : Atom Egoyan
Publisher : Alliance Video
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotica written by Atom Egoyan and published by Alliance Video. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Byrd Graf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1312 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotica, Series 4 International written by Alfred Byrd Graf and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jude Idada
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477659151
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotica Celestica written by Jude Idada and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotica Celestica is a collection of poems that celebrates the marriage of the physical and the spiritual. It seeks to capture the unique amalgam of human emotions through the lens of a compassionate celestial force. It is a poetic commentary on the emotional phases of mankind; anger, hate, sex, revenge, remorse, hopelessness, forgiveness, sacrifice, tolerance, inspiration, submission and love. It captures the joys and challenges of the mundane as is evident in everyday life, as much as it espouses the language of love both as a pure aspiration of the emotion and an expression of the carnal desires of the flesh. It heralds a yearning to understand the mystical as it exists as the unseen hand of the celestial in the affairs of mankind. It enquires; is the basis of pleasure in the expression of pure love a thread that connects us to the core of existence? Is the seminal love which burns in the heat of fleeting lust a mirror image of mankind as beings made in the full image of the Divine? Is our sensuality and sexuality not only facts of nature but actually the language of the Creator? Are we mere pawns in the game of life or beings in actual control of our destinies? This is a collection that explores the complexities of mankind in full awareness of the entirety of its faculties and its power therein.