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What (who) is exotica - definition

MUSIC GENRE INVOLVING TROPICAL ERSATZ

exotica

You use exotica to refer to objects which you think are unusual and interesting, usually because they come from or are related to a distant country.

N-PLURAL

exotica

[?g'z?t?k?, ?g-]

¦ plural noun exotic objects.

Origin

C19: from L., neut. plural of exoticus (see exotic).

Exotica (Bananarama album)

ALBUM BY BANANARAMA

If (Bananarama song)

Exotica is the eighth studio album released by the British female vocal duo Bananarama. This is Bananarama's third album as a duo, and was produced by Pascal Caubet and issued only in France in 2001 on the M6 Interactions label.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotica_(Bananarama_album)

Wikipedia

Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II. The term was coined by Simon "Si" Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder board chairman. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz, the non-native, pseudo experience of insular Oceania, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, the Amazon basin, the Andes, the Caribbean and tribal Africa. Denny described the musical style as "a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient...what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like...it's pure fantasy though." While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the "musical impressions" of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical "shangri-las" dreamt of by armchair safari-ers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotica

Examples of use of exotica

1. "For her, India is the land of exotica and beauty.

2. So it is all upon oneself, on how you turn your exotica to your advantage.

3. MA: My grandmother would cook potatoes occasionally as exotica, but we had rice at every meal.

4. And the animals were getting scarcer and scarcer." Furry and feathered exotica remained beyond the pale for decades.

5. Designed with a tropical exotica feel, it is probably the only establishment in town that prepares Polynesian dishes, among others.