A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa's art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess.
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Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liege, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liege, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf). Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently working on a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce.
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Like Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," Zappa's music has often been accused of being far too noisy and of containing too many notes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximalist art, meate dream, maximalist aesthetics, magnesium dress, alienated pleasure, human totem pole, poodle play, modified dog, minimalist music, subjective body, air sculpture, big note, muffin man, sleeve notes, enormous mouth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Vliet, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica, Secret History of Maximalism, Civilization Phaze, Uncle Meat, Lumpy Gravy, Thing Fish, Finnegans Wake, Ben Watson, Brown Moses, Ensemble Modern, Joe's Garage, Central Scrutinizer, The Spotlight Kid, Barnes Captain, Call Any Vegetable, Cocaine Decisions, Feher Vol, Roundhouse Man, The Perfect Stranger, Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, Andy Warhol, Beat the Reaper New!
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Like Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," Zappa's music has often been accused of being far too noisy and of containing too many notes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximalist art, meate dream, maximalist aesthetics, magnesium dress, alienated pleasure, human totem pole, poodle play, modified dog, minimalist music, subjective body, air sculpture, big note, muffin man, sleeve notes, enormous mouth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Vliet, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica, Secret History of Maximalism, Civilization Phaze, Uncle Meat, Lumpy Gravy, Thing Fish, Finnegans Wake, Ben Watson, Brown Moses, Ensemble Modern, Joe's Garage, Central Scrutinizer, The Spotlight Kid, Barnes Captain, Call Any Vegetable, Cocaine Decisions, Feher Vol, Roundhouse Man, The Perfect Stranger, Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, Andy Warhol, Beat the Reaper New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Captain Beefheart: The Biography by Mike Barnes on 5 pages
- Frank Zappa: The Complete Guide to His Music by Ben Watson on 5 pages
- Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce on 4 pages
- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on page 84, page 151, and Back Matter
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on page 84, page 151, and Back Matter
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- Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body (European Joyce Studies 17) by Richard Brown (Ed.) in Back Matter
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