Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism

by Andrew Norris and Michel Delville

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844710599
• ISBN13: 9781844710591
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 21 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary