The words and music of Frank Zappa
Subtitle: by Kelly Fisher Lowe.
Series: The Praeger Singer-songwriter collection
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Zappa, Frank -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Frank Zappa and the art of satire; title: You call that music? : listening to Frank Zappa; title: The Mothers of Invention; title: Freak out!, Absolutely free, We're only in it for the money, Lumpy gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, and Mothermania; title: Hot rats, the last two Mothers albums, Flo & Eddie, and the jazz-rock albums; title: Hot rats, Burnt weeny sandwich, Weasels ripped my flesh, Chungas revenge, Fillmore East, 1971, 200 motels, Just another band from LA, Waka/Jawaka and the Grand Wazoo; title: The Duke-Brock/progressive rock bands Läther, and the Terry Bozzio albums; title: Over-nite sensation, Apostrophe, Roxy& elsewhere, One size fits all, Bongo fury, Zoot allures, Zappa in New York, Studio tan, Sleep dirt, and Sheik Yerbouti; title: Politics, 1979-1988. Joe's garage ; Acts I-III ; Tinsel Town rebellion ; You are what you is ; Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch ; The man from Utopia ; Them or us ; Thing-fish ; Broadway the hard way.