Introduction Frank Zappa is a well known individual mainly because of his artistic character and his contribution in the art and music industry. He was born in 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland and died in 1993 at the age of 52 years. He had a lot of interest in music from his early age and engaged in more serious music as time passed by and became acquitted in the field of music. During his time, he was very popular for his artistic work most especially music. He was also a social critic because of his influence to the society through his motivational and informative music. He was the most competent composer of his age and had the capability to bridge different genres without any difficulties for instance classical, jazz, rock. He was able to produce and record a total of 60 musical albums hence having a lot of impact on the society. Ways through Which Frank Zappa’s Art and Work Appeared Emblematic of His Time and the Socio-Political Aspects Frank Zappa can be viewed as a lens through which the socio-political issues of his time can be well understood since he touched on the social and political aspects through his art and music. He concentrated on various aspects in the social and political spheres in his writings and songs. Although Frank Zappa used most of his time composing, recording, editing and even performing his musical work, he engaged himself in other aspects of life most especially social and political happenings. In his music ventures, Frank Zappa was involved with various collaborations and therefore joined various groups such as the Mothers of Invention whose members were very unconventional in their procedures including their dress code and quality of music they produced. Frank Zappa intention while in the group was to make it proactive and controversial and more so courageous to face the consequences of their actions and deeds. Zappa brought about a lot of positive changes in the music industry by improving the music quality through incorporation of various aspects that make music appropriate and attractive to the majority of people in the society. He also expanded the field of music through recruitment of adventurous and notable musicians, for instance, guitarist Steve Vai and keyboardist Duke George. Frank Zappa was a very influential artist in his time due to his initiatives in fighting for what is right for the majority as opposed to just following the law blindly. He for example viewed most of the American systems to be ineffective and to be based on fallacies rather than facts and realities e.g. the moral code and hence viewed the codes to be insufficient to the society at that time as they seemed outdated. He tried to put sense into the minds of the people that they should live real lives and stop living in hypocrisy while at the same time they suffered inwardly from following the codes which instead of strengthening them morally ended up crippling them. He emphasized on freedom of the people and was against any oppression and discrimination of the minority at the expense of the few people who have powers. Frank Zappa was politically engaged during his entire adulthood although his political activism underwent some changes over the years. He was for instance arrested in 1962 for obscenity and pornography as it was seen as a sign for his distrust for the existing system. His search for liberalization is also seen through his quest to acqu