Zindzi's Zappa: From 1940, to Freak Out! and Beyond

This blog will discuss issues of the life, work, and politics of composer and social critic Frank Zappa. Zappa was a visionary, often copied but hardly given credit. He sought to right the social injustices that he saw around him in America, calling middle America out on their hypocrisy, conformism and artificiality. His music and his strong beliefs and convictions were just part of the man who reshaped rock 'n' roll from the 1960s onwards.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

ZAPPA THE MUSICIAN-PERFORMER: Zappa's musical influence

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Many musicians were influenced by new kinds of music that Zappa created and experimented with.  Orgasmic-sounding, nonverbal vocalizations a...
Friday, April 17, 2009

ZAPPA THE COMPOSER: The Ensemble Modern, and coming full circle

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Many believe that Frank Zappa's work was truly complete when he worked with the German orchestra Ensemble Modern, for the Frankfurt Musi...

ZAPPA THE MAN: Unorthodox views & lifestyle lead to unorthodox parenting.

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Without a doubt, the most interesting stories I have heard about Frank Zappa are his child-rearing habits.  Frank and Gail believed that chi...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

ZAPPA THE SOCIAL CRITIC: PMRC debates & congressional hearings

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To be honest, I had never even heard of Frank Zappa before watching VH1 one day, and happening upon a program about the PMRC's call to d...
Friday, April 10, 2009

ZAPPA'S GENERAL DEFINITION OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION

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"A person with a feel for rhythm can walk into a factory and hear the machine noise as a composition. If we expand that concept to incl...

ZAPPA THE COMPOSER: Mixing musical meters and styles

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Frank Zappa always seemed determined to push boundaries, and musical boundaries are less than exception - to him, it seemed that music was o...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

ZAPPA THE COMPOSER: Zappa messes with musical expectations.

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Zappa's great dream was to become a truly revolutionary composer, like his idols Varese and Stravinsky.  His primary interest was really...
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