Frank zappa capitain beefheart and - the secret history of

Informationen zum Autor Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf). Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently working on a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter OneBreaking You DownChapter TwoWe are the Mothers and This is What We Sound Like: On the Uses and Abuses of Degenerate ArtChapter ThreeBirth Trauma and the Blues-Gothic: The Body at the CrossroadsChapter FourLaughter Inside and Out: The Subject-Object on the EdgeChapter FiveUnprincipled PleasureNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: m norris Delville, Michel Delville, Andrew Norris
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 21
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2005
• EAN: 9781844710591
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-059-1
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Art, music; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Pop Music, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Popular Music, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets