Zappa and Jazz
Title | Zappa and Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Wills |
Publisher | Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2016-11-08 |
Genre | 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.
Real Frank Zappa Book
Title | Real Frank Zappa Book PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Zappa |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0671705725 |
Recounts the career of the rock music performer.
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa
Title | The Words and Music of Frank Zappa PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Fisher Lowe |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780803260054 |
A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.
Frank Zappa and the And
Title | Frank Zappa and the And PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Carr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317133153 |
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.
The Hot Rats Book
Title | The Hot Rats Book PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Gubbins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | |
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.
Freak Out
Title | Freak Out PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Butcher |
Publisher | Plexus Publishing |
Total Pages | 551 |
Release | 2023-09-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0859657159 |
This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.
Spook Country
Title | Spook Country PDF eBook |
Author | William Gibson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 2007-08-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101147288 |
The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. • spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” • country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. • spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World