Author: Gwerder, Urban [1944- 2017] ; editor : [Zappa, Frank ] [ Mothers of Invention ]
Title: Alla Zappa : Festschrift anlässlich der Zark-Expo & Mothers-Konzerte in Zürich im März 1976
Description: Zürich, Painting Box Press, (1976). Erste Auflage, orig. wrappers. 29x20cm, 66,(8) pages. Cover title reads: "The Story of Frank Zappa". Text in German with some English.. 12pp photoplates.. Name on title. Some wear. Some cover soil & toning. Good. ¶ 12pp photoplates. Numerous textual illustrations. Unpaginated [66 pages + 8leaves of photoplates]. With a German magazine newsclipping regarding Zappa upon verso of which is affixed an advertisement for the Norbert Obermanns publication "Get Zapped". ["Gwerder published two books about Zappa, namely Frank Zappa et les Mothers of Invention (with Alain Dister, 1975, Editions Albin Michel) and Alla Zappa. Festschrift (Painting Box Press, 197 6). The latter was published as a companion piece to an exhibition about Zappa, combined with concerts by the Mothers of Invention in Zürich that same year. A compilation of his articles and photographs was published in 1 998 as Im Zeichen des Magischen Affen, which also came with a bonus CD, Berglers Balz, with an unreleased Zappa track named Eternal Motherly Goodbye Collage. He furthermore created an almanac based on Zappa's work" - Zappa Wiki Jawaka].

Keywords: Counterculture, Frank Zappa, Mothers Invention, Rock & Roll, Popular Music, Cultural History, , ,