num_pages: 204
description: 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.
language: English
title: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
titlecomplete: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism (Salt Studies in Contemporary Literature & Culture S)
genres: Music
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Salt Publishing