| Post-war Western appropriative music meant to depict fantasies of life in imagined-to-be
sunny and exotic tribal Africa, the Andes, the Amazon basin, Hawaii, Southeast Asia,
and especially Oceania. Contains elements of orchestral easy listening styles such
as light music as well as of big band jazz, with instrumentation typically borrowing
from those styles as well as commonly including vibraphones and various instruments
from different parts of the world, such as congas, bongos, Indonesian and Burmese
gongs, bamboo sticks, Tahitian logs, Chinese bell trees, and Japanese kotos. Animal
noises such as bird calls, big cat roars and primate shrieks are often incorporated.
Seminal albums include Les Baxter’s Ritual of the Savage and Martin Denny’s Exotica.
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DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16