Post #705954 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 27, 2014 9:14 PM

On 2014-01-27 20:56, AceExplorer wrote:

On 2014-01-27 18:58, JOHN-O wrote:
...reinterpretation of Tiki to include Rockabilly, burlesque, hot rods, spies, beatniks, etc. etc.

Some day there will have to be a new name coined for all this consolidated stuff. It's not so much a re-interpretation of tiki as it is a bunch of other fun stuff piled together. So you're now getting tiki, cocktails, fast cars, sexy women, etc. Wow, it's as if tiki alone wasn't fun by itself.

These are just two different things: One was the original mid-century Tiki style, the other is the TIKI REVIVAL. Both related, but not the same.

I see it this way: Mid-century Tiki was the result of broad, widespread popular awareness and interest in Hawaiian and Polynesian culture in America. This popular base does not exist anymore today, so folks are making up for that by connecting it to other genres. Yet doing so breeds the danger of diluting and bastardizing it.