Author : Geoff Wills
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1785897993
Frank Zappa's music has a unique and easily recognisable quality, and is a brilliant synthesis of a wide range of cultural influences. This book focuses on just one of the influences on Zappa's music, namely Jazz.
Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671705725
Recounts the career of the rock music performer.
Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780803260054
A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.
Author : Dr Paul Carr
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : 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.
Author : Kevin Courrier
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : 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.
Author : Bill Gubbins
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781493047758
Hot Rats, the second solo album by Frank Zappa, is considered by his fans and critics alike to be a groundbreaking, important record, as well as one of his most innovative efforts of all time. The first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention, Zappa composed, arranged, and produced all of the music on Hot Rats while playing electric guitar on all tracks. The album contains the song "Peaches en Regalia," widely recognized as a modern jazz-fusion standard. This entire groundbreaking and historical record--including using new sixteen-multitrack recording and overdub technics for the first time ever--was captured in photos by Bill Gubbins, who shot the recording sessions and live performances of the record immediately following its release. Most of these images have never before been published in book form, appearing here for the first time. The "Hot Rats" Book: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats" also contains essays by author Bill Gubbins; Ian Underwood, who was involved in working with Zappa on the recording sessions; Steve Vai; David Fricke; and Matt Groening.
Author : Charles Ulrich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781554201464
Music. THE BIG NOTE is the complete guide to the music of Frank Zappa--100 albums recorded over 35 years, the 80+ players on them, each one of 1,772 tracks described in detail, backed up by 1,424 citations. Based on hundreds of interviews, letters, and e-mail correspondences with scores of musicians, singers, engineers, artists, copyists, and others who worked with Zappa, THE BIG NOTE provides the liner notes that every album in the protean and prolific composer's oeuvre cries out for. It is the indispensible resource for any Zappa fan or scholar.
Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1458430596
(Recorded Version (Guitar)). Note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all nine tracks from Zappa's classic 1975 release: Andy * Can't Afford No Shoes * Evelyn, A Modified Dog * Florentine Pogen * Inca Roads * Po-Jama People * San Ber'dino * Sofa No. 1 * Sofa No. 2. Includes an introduction by Steve Vai.
Author : Charles Robert Zappa
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780996477901
A memoir written by brother Bob Zappa of rock musician Frank Zappa, describing period in their lives from the 1950s until 1967. Information covered in this book has never been told before.
Author : Neil Slaven
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : 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.
