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The words and music of Frank Zappa / Kelly Fisher Lowe.
- Title
- The words and music of Frank Zappa / Kelly Fisher Lowe.
- Author
- Lowe, Kelly Fisher.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 259 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Words and Music of Frank Zappa moves beyond the details of Zappa's biography toward a focused treatment of the rock and pop songs of this great American composer. Today, Zappa's music can be appreciated as a whole, emerging as a coherent, thoughtful, and innovative - if somewhat daunting - body of work. Author Kelly Lowe has left no aspect of that work unexamined, from Zappa's role as a satirist of the highest order, to his place in the genre of "progressive rock," and his importance as one of the foremost critics of American culture and society. The book includes an official discography and a bibliographic essay that discusses the current state of Zappa scholarship."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The Praeger Singer-songwriter collection, 1553-3484
- Uniform Title
- Praeger singer-songwriter collection.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-246), discography (p. [209]-213), and index.
- Contents
- You call that music? -- Satire and the art of Frank Zappa -- -- The Mothers of Invention -- Hot rats, the last two Mothers albums, Flo & Eddie, and the jazz-rock albums -- The Duke-Brock/progressive rock bands, Läther, and the Terry Bozzio albums -- Politics: 1979-88.
- ISBN
- 0275987795
- 0313054576
- 9780275987794
- LCCN
- ^^2005034613
- OCLC
- 62393159
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library