Dr Paul Carr 
Frank Zappa and the And [EPUB ebook] 

This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. The publication presents an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa”s legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social, technological and musicological factors. Zappa”s interface with religion, horror, death, movies, modernism, satire, freaks, technology, resistance, censorship and the avant-garde are brought together analytically for the first time.