Frank Zappa and the And

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Contents: Introduction, 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 Fischer, 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
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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.

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a rigorously academic dissection - with copious footnotes, scrupulous cross-referencing, etc - of Zappa's creative idiolect ... a book that punches its intellectual weight with assiduous thoroughness... Frank Zappa And The And provides the most vital and thought-provoking interpretation of the man's output we've yet come across. Illuminating touchstones invoked along the way include Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Dead Of Night, Salvador DalA , Aldous Huxley and MR James

the writing is focused, rewarding and [...] entertaining

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