Frank Zappa as Dadaist: Recording technology and the power to repeat

Contemporary Music Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 109-137

  Watson, Ben ^a  

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Author keywords

Dada avantgarde; Frank Zappa; Postmodernism; Recording technology; Rock; Theodor Adorno

Indexed keywords

EID: 61949338952     PISSN: 07494467     EISSN: 14772256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07494469600640401     Document Type: Article

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