Zappa, Frank. (1940-1993)
The Real Frank Zappa Book - SIGNED "Thanks for not puking on my cap."
New York: Poseidon Press. [1989]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed, "To / Karen / Hebert / Thanks for / not puking on / my cap. / Frank Zappa" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 352 pages. Publisher's red cloth over black paper boards with gile spine titles. Original pictorial dust jacket. Minor toning to part of the textblock and the jacket flaps. Bottom corners bumped. A near fine copy.His music "is eclectic and draws freely on the popular music of the 1950s and early 60s, embracing rhythm and blues, rock and roll, doo-wop, middle-of-the-road ballads, the world of Hollywood film music and of TV advertisements, treating them as objets trouvés; at the same time it also draws on the soundworlds of Stravinsky, Ives, Varèse and Stockhausen, creating multi-layered textures and employing montage techniques and abrupt stylistic juxtapositions which have the effect of Brechtian alienation and Dadaist confrontation, as in Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Reprise, 1970) and Over-Nite Sensation (Discreet, 1973). Zappa wanted his music to achieve the autonomy associated with high art music while subversively working from within the popular music industry. In the 1980s this was accentuated by the increasing esteem in which Zappa was held as a serious composer, so that his performances and two albums with the London SO (LSO: Zappa, 1983–7) and with the Ensemble Intercontemporain (The Perfect Stranger, 1984) appear at the same time as his bizarre synthesizer recreations of pieces by his 18th-century namesake (1984)...Zappa’s importance lies less in any obvious influence on rock music than in the way in which his music embraces American popular culture while simultaneously maintaining a critical distance from it, and in the way in which his musical critique at the same time constitutes a political and social critique." (Max Paddison, Grove Online) (9045)
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