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Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play Book

There is probably no figure of modern popular music who so deserves the sort of scholarly exercise undertaken by Ben Watson in this book, and I am personally convinced that Zappa will be regaled by 21st Century music historians as a "crux of the biscuit" of 20th Century music. And this 700 page tome will certainly be cited by our music historian descendants. In fairness, it may confound today's Zappa fans with it's copious references to Adorno, Freud, and Marx, but is likely to delight the erudite with its excerpts of the playfully situationist lyrics of Zappa, completely deconstructed by Watson. There is no doubt that Zappa was a genius--albeit a peculiarly American sort--and there is no doubt that no book has yet attempted such a thorough (albeit peculiar) analysis of his genius. Highly Recommended.Read More

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  • Product Description

    An in-depth study on the achievements of Frank Zappa explores his rock, classical, jazz, and ethnic techniques, interpreting his ideas as an extension of a western radical tradition and comparing him to such figures as John Cage and Pierre Boulez.

  • 0312119186
  • 9780312119188
  • Ben Watson
  • 1 January 1995
  • St Martins Pr
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 597
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