Songs in the key of Z
Subtitle: the curious universe of outsider music
By: Irwin Chusid
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A Cappella
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Popular music; Au enseiter; History and criticism; Popmusiker; Musicians; Biographie; Biography; Musiker
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254), discography (p. 237-248), and index.
Table of contents: title: Groove is in the heart / The Shaggs - I get a kick out of Uke / Tiny Tim - Chatterbox jukebox / Jack Mudurian - Blast from the past / Joe Meek - Bus fare to the Grammys / Song Poems - The fruits of clean living / The Cherry Sisters - The great disconnect / Jandek - Casper 1, Satan 0 / Daniel Johnston - Hallelujah! He's a bum / Harry Partch - Hell ride / Wesley Willis - Guitars and dust / Syd Barrett - The King of Sweden / Eilert Pilarm - Interstellar overdrive / Lucia Pamela - Inscrutable dreamer / Captain Beefheart - Scat man do / Shooby Taylor, the human horn - Widow's peak / Florence Foster Jenkins - Wide open space cadet / The legendary stardust cowboy - Sleep in the grave / Robert Graettinger - Mission to Venus / B. J. Snowden - Ritual of the savage / Wild man Fischer - Elsewhere in the curious universe / Snapshots in Sound.