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Title: The Book of Tiki. The cult of polynesian pop in fifties america. by Sven A. Kirsten ISBN: 3-8228-2433-X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: it's tiki-tastic!
Comment: What a fabulous book! The definitive book on tiki culture! I can't imagine that anyelse could ever surpass the excellent work done by Sven Kirsten. This book is truly a joy. I'll often rush through a new book but I took my time with this beauty. Entertaining, absorbing and stylish, it's just as much fun to merely look at as it is to read it. Each page is an adventure. I was impressed by the scope of the book - it deals with not just restaurants but with motels, apartment buildings, home entertaining, etc. Sven Kirsten also profiles the major innovators and originators of tiki culture. The best part is that the book is presented (tongue in cheek) as a guide to the urban archaeologist, interested in uncovering the remmnants and traces of the now-extinct tiki culture.
A must-have book!
Rating: 5
Summary: LONG LIVE TIKI!
Comment: As one who grew up in Hawaii and has some Hawaiian blood, this book was a blessing and a curse. A blessing for it shows how post-war America found solace in strong drinks, bad chinese food, steel guitar music, and over-the-top pseudo-Pacific decor. From coast-to-coast, and in places as arcane as Modesto, California, Tiki meant fun. This book is great collage of images from bygone days, and the narrative is brisk -- if not as in depth as one would like...
The curse is that Tiki is now almost as archaelogically distant as its own subject matter. Trader Vic's is still the "high-class" standard bearer, but there are only four left here in the states. This book alone should spur a tiki revival writ large.
As with many other Taschen books, a French and German narrative is included... what better way to spread the intristic power of Tiki in our globalist age!
Rating: 5
Summary: More Tiki Than You Can Shake A Torch At
Comment: Like all Taschen books, this book is visually STUNNING! Just leafing through the pictures never gets boring. The real treat is the book is also jam packed facts, folklore, drink recipies, and so much more. More information about Tiki than I ever knew existed.
Plenty of eye-candy in this book, but very well balanced with informative and fun content. A must have for the Tiki enthusiast!
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Title: Tiki Road Trip: A Guide to Tiki Culture in North America by James Teitelbaum, Sven A. Kirsten ISBN: 1891661302 Publisher: Santa Monica Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings by Doug Nason, Shag, Leroy Schmaltz, Douglas A. Nason, Greg Escalante ISBN: 0867195320 Publisher: Last Gasp of San Francisco Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tiki Drinks by Adam Rocke, Shag ISBN: 1572840366 Publisher: Surrey Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Beachbum Berry's Grog Log by Jeff Berry, Annene Kaye, Craig Pape ISBN: 0943151201 Publisher: Slave Labor Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Beachbum Berry's Intoxica! by Jeff Berry, Craig Pape ISBN: 0943151570 Publisher: SLG Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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