Composer, Musician, Activist (21-Dec-1940 — 4-Dec-1993)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Kevin Courrier. The Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive Art of Frank Zappa. Toronto: ECW Press. 2001. 250pp.

Ben Cruikshank. Frank Zappa: A Strictly Genteel Genius. Agenda. 1996. 90pp.

Michel Delville; Andrew Norris. Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism. Salt Publishing. 2005. 204pp.

Michael Gray. Mother! Is the Story of Frank Zappa. London: Proteus Books. 1985. 128pp.

Billy James. Necessity Is: The Early Years of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. SAF Publishing. 2002. 224pp.

Richard Kostelanetz. The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary. Prentice Hall. 1997. 274pp.

Nigey Lennon. Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa. California Classics Books. 1995. 154pp.

Kelly Fisher Lowe. The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006. 259pp.

Barry Miles. Zappa: A Biography. New York: Grove Press. 2004. 464pp.

Carl-Ludwig Reichert. Frank Zappa. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. 2000. 159pp.

Neil Slaven. Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa. Omnibus Press. 2003. 438pp.

Kasper Sloots. Frank Zappa's Musical Language: A Study of the Music of Frank Zappa. K. Sloots. 2000. 45pp.

Steve Vai. The Frank Zappa Guitar Book. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Music. 1982. 302pp. Guitar transcriptions.

David Walley. No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. New York: Outerbridge & Lazard/E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.. 1972. 184pp.

Ben Watson. Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play. London: Quartet Books. 1993. 597pp.

Ben Watson; Esther Leslie (editor). Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology. SAF Publishing. 2005. 224pp.

Frank Zappa; Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book. London: Picador Books. 1989. 352pp.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Encylopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul (pp.762-64)

6. Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (pp.276-77)

7. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (pp.1145-46)

8. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.823)

9. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.5, pp.225-27)

10. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.332)

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