Introduction

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: ABSOLUTELY FREE: His Life, His Times

Zappa, Frank (1992)

Nicolas Slonimsky

Frank Zappa: The Present Day Composer (1994; Revised 1996)

William Ruhlmann

PART TWO: BROWN SHOES DON'T MAKE IT: The Early Years

Are You Hung Up? (1993)

Dave Marsh

Only in it for the Money (1972)

David Walley

Zappa Interviewed (1969)

Robert Levin

Frank Zappa (1994)

Miles

PART THREE: YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE: Performer/Composer

The Mothers Live (1969)

In Person: The Mothers of Invention

Doon Abbus

At the Fillmore East, 20 April 1969

Richard Kostelanetz

Frank Zappa: Guitarist (1977)

Steve Rosen

In Respect of Rubbish (1982)

Ben Watson

Orchestral Maneuvers (1984)

Bill Milkowski

PART FOUR: THE BEST BAND YOUR NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE: On Record

Performing Quotations: Frank Zappa as Freak Out! Aphorist (1996)

Stephen Paul Miller

Frank Zappa on Disc (1991)

Mike Fish

Ben Watson

FZ on CD (1988)

Art Lange

Frank Zappa as Dadaist: Recording Technology and the Power to Repeat (1996)

Ben Watson

PART FIVE: PLASTIC PEOPLE: Politics and Culture

Record Labeling: Hearing before the Committee on Commerece, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, September 19, 1985

Frank Zappa

Revolt Against Mediocrity (1986)

Batya Friedman

Steve Lyons

Signs of the Times (1991)

BOB Guccione, Jr.

Zappa for President? (1991)

Brian Doherty

PART SIX: DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW: Life and Legacies

I Enter the Age of Absurdity (1988)

Nicolas Slonimsky

Abnormal Life (1990)

Elaine Warren

Playboy Interview (1993)

David Sheff

Frank Zappa, 1940--1993 (1994)

Tom Isenberg

Revolutionary (1993)

Vaclav Havel

Selected Discography

Selected Bibliography

Chronology

Permissions

Index