What began on the America mainland in the 1850s when the first hula dancers were presented to the public and what was promoted by Hawaiian music only a few years later – the promise of paradise on earth, an Eden in endless summer – the Hawaiian way of life, for the vast majority of American […]
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Tiki Pop. America imagines its own Polynesian Paradise by Sven Kirsten (2014)
The 1960s in the United States saw the peak of the Tiki craze, the fascination with physical products of Polynesia and, more important than that, the easy and happy way of life, as it was glorified by the American public. While it is hard to imagine, there actually was a very strong influence of Tiki […]