Trout mask replica / Kevin Courrier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courrier, Kevin, 1954-

Series:

33 1/3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Captain Beefheart. Trout mask replica.

Captain Beefheart.

Rock music--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

ix, 148 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

33 1/3 On Easter Sunday 1969, Zappa called up Vliet and told him that the album was done. Beefheart had all the guys in the band get dressed up, "as if they were going to Easter church," Zappa recalled. They came over to Zappa's studio early that morning and sat in his living room and listened to it. Apparently, they loved it. Considering all the adversity stirred up in making it, the record's defiant originality cut through the foibles. Within a few months, when a few brave people put the record on their turntable, they would discover just how defiantly original it really was.

In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica divided rather than united a pop audience. The album is a hybrid of poetic declarations inspired by both Walt Whitman and the beat poets, the field hollers of the Delta Blues, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf, the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, and the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. This book illustrates how Trout Mask Replica was not so much an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, but rather a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination.

Contents:

A desert island of the mind

A different fish

Jumping out of school

A little paranoia is a good propeller

Music from the other side of the fence

Fast 'n bulbous.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-148).

ISBN:

9780826427816

0826427812

OCLC:

80020136