Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation

by Francesco Adinolfi

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An encyclopedic account of the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age/Cold War period and the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design.

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lemontwist 1,506 reviews

This book was overall pretty cool but it did drag at times with endless names of artists and their songs and films, etc. The coolest thing about the book was finding out the origin of the Ma Na Ma Na song and the dude who originally did the spaghetti western whistle.

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