Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Exotica is a musical genre named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s typically with suburban Americans who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz the non-native pseudo experience of insular Oceania Southeast Asia Hawaii Amazonia the Andes and tribal Africa.