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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