Collecting essays by such diverse talents as Nicolas Slonimsky, Vaclav Havel, and Bob Guccione, Jr., the Frank Zappa Companion presents a wealth of opinions and perspectives on the man who named James Joyce, Tiny Tim, Muddy Waters, and Igor Stravinsky among his many influences. Fourth in the expanding Schirmer Books Companion Series Zappa remains one of the most controversial modern musicians Frank Zappas music crosses every genre - opera, jazz, folk, rock, classical, R&B - and his music offends or interests fans of each. The writers collected in this Companion are among the most fascinating to-date: Slonimsky, Havel, Guccione, are joined by Bill Milkowski, Ben Watson, and Elaine WarrenContains the transcription of Zappas famous testimony before Tipper Gore and the rest of the Parents Music Regulatory Committee, along with some of his writings