Frank Zappa and the And

by Carr, Paul

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Title Statements

Full title :Frank Zappa and the And / edited by Paul Carr.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:New edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

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. The publication presents an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa's legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 247 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781409433378, 1409433374, 1409433382, 9781409433385
oclc:ocn880888696
Dewey Decimal:782.42166092

Introduction: the big note, xenochrony and all things contextual: Frank Zappa and the And, Paul Carr; Zappa and horror: screamin' at the monster, Richard J. Hand; Zappa and his cultural legacy: authorship, influences and expressive features in Frank Zappa's movies, Manuel de la Fuente; Zappa and religion: music is the best, Kevin Seal; Zappa and the razor: editing, sampling and musique concrete, James Gardner; Zappa and satire: from conceptual absurdism to the perversity of politics, Nick Awde; Zappa and resistance: the pleasure principle, Claude Chastagner; Zappa and the story song: a rage of cultural influences, Geoffrey I. Wills; Zappa and technology: his incorporation of time, space and place in performing, composing and arranging music, Paul Carr; Zappa and the freaks: recording Wild Man Fisher, David Sanjek; Zappa and modernism: an extended study of Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Martin Knakkergaard; Zappa and the avant garde: artifice/absorption/expression, Michel Delville; Zappa and mortality: the mediation of Zappa's death, Paula Hearsum; Index.