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The Beatles’ Secret to Rock Immortality
Bob and Scott weave between Meltzer’s dense prose and McLuhan’s structured media theory, using the latter to decode the former. Major themes include clichés in rock, McLuhan’s evolutionary media process, the 1960s’ accelerated cultural turnover, and rock’s visceral role in…
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Zappa on how to watch the news.
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Zappa’s early influences: R&B – Doo-wop Vol.23
Frank Zappa often complained by the Eighties that he found it difficult to find musicians who were familiar with the Doo-Wop and R&B records of the Fifties. So his love of that music could not be featured in his later…
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Zappa Hour 15 – Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a kaleidoscopic, dreamlike book that weaves a cyclical tale of human history, myth, and language through a fluid, pun-drenched narrative. Sounds a bit like Zappa’s music. Bob Dobbs and guests explore the question: did author James Joyce’s…
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Tommy Mars on Frank Zappa’s style.
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Zappa’s early influences: R&B – Doo-wop Vol.22
Frank Zappa often complained by the Eighties that he found it difficult to find musicians who were familiar with the Doo-Wop and R&B records of the Fifties. So his love of that music could not be featured in his later…
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Zappa’s relationship with the Czech Republic
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Zappa on his strange reputation.
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Rock: from Anti-Tongue to Digital Culture
Bob Dobbs and music writer Scott Woods dive deep into rock criticism, focusing on the concept of “anti-tongue”—a rejection of direct lyrical meaning in favor of sonic and tactile experiences Bob Dobbs is a Zappa researcher and McLuhan scholar. Scott…