Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism - Paperback

by Michel Delville (Author), Andrew Norris (Author)

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.