Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa

Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa
Author: Neil Slaven
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2009-11-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857120433

Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. Revised and updated, Electric Don Quixote is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career. Author, Neil Slaven, brings together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music. Fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive discography.

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa
Author: Ben Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 597
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780704302426

Real Frank Zappa Book

Real Frank Zappa Book
Author: Frank Zappa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671705725

Recounts the career of the rock music performer.

Frank Zappa and the And

Frank Zappa and the And
Author: Dr Paul Carr
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1409473465

This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, cultural, and translation studies, with expertise and interests ranging from musicology to poetics. The publication presents the reader with an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa's legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social, technological and musicological factors, as encapsulated in the book's title - Frank Zappa and the And. Zappa's interface with religion, horror, death, movies, modernism, satire, freaks, technology, resistance, censorship and the avant-garde are brought together analytically for the first time, and approached non chronologically, something that strongly complies with the non linear perspective of time Zappa highlights in both his autobiography and recordings. The book employs a variety of analytical approaches, ranging from literary and performance theory, 'horrality' and musicology, to post modern and textually determined readings, and serves as a unique and invaluable guide to Zappa's legacy and creative force.

The Words and Music of Frank Zappa

The Words and Music of Frank Zappa
Author: Kelly Fisher Lowe
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780803260054

A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.

Academy Zappa

Academy Zappa
Author: Ben Watson
Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780946719792

Academic decorum is trashed as the glories, absurdities and obscenities of rock's greatest Dadaist are unveiled.

Dangerous Kitchen

Dangerous Kitchen
Author: Kevin Courrier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

For thirty years, from 1966 until his death in 1993, Frank Zappa was one of the most influential, innovative, and controversial popular musicians, combining a wide range of musical styles with social and political parody. In this innovative biography, Courrier explodes the myths of Zappa's drug use and fetishism to illuminate the facts about this outrageously gifted composer's emergence during the eclectic and experimental sixties, linking his form of artistic rebellion to its cultural precedents, and examining Zappa as a true original. Illustrated with 30 b/w photos.

Frank Zappa and the And

Frank Zappa and the And
Author: Paul Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317133145

This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, cultural, and translation studies, with expertise and interests ranging from musicology to poetics. The publication presents the reader with an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa's legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social, technological and musicological factors, as encapsulated in the book's title - Frank Zappa and the And. Zappa's interface with religion, horror, death, movies, modernism, satire, freaks, technology, resistance, censorship and the avant-garde are brought together analytically for the first time, and approached non chronologically, something that strongly complies with the non linear perspective of time Zappa highlights in both his autobiography and recordings. The book employs a variety of analytical approaches, ranging from literary and performance theory, 'horrality' and musicology, to post modern and textually determined readings, and serves as a unique and invaluable guide to Zappa's legacy and creative force.