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Frank Zappa and Dadaism

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 Zappa also liked musician [[Moondog]] for his ''"dada clockwork"''.
-''"In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our
+''"In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one. From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend to play either "[[How Could I Be Such A Fool|How Could I Be Such a Fool?]]" or "[[Who Are The Brain Police?|Who Are the Brain Police?]]" so I suggested that each member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff of homemade prime-time [[Dada]]."'' - [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]
 ''"You know, that was what was great about the '20s, the way you could combine the concept of working class with Dada. God, they don't know what they missed in those days. (...) I've always appreciated Dada and I keep trying to get [[Ahmet Zappa|Ahmet]] to read about it, because that's him in the flesh, he's a genetic carrier of that particular gene that has been pretty much bred out of the species. It's like [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] says, It's not enough to want, you have to be. There are people that wish they were Dada but they'll never make it. He doesn't even know what it means, but he exudes it."'' - Frank Zappa, ''[[The Last Days of Frank Zappa]]'', [[Ben Watson]], Mojo Magazine, March 1994.

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 ==Frank Zappa and Dadaism==
-Frank Zappa was strongly inspired by the surreal, humorous and randomness of Dadaism. He adapted it into his personal motto [[AAAFNRAA]] (''Anytime, Any place, Anywhere, For No Reason At All"'').
+Frank Zappa was strongly inspired by the surreal, humorous and randomness of Dadaism. He adapted it into his personal motto [[AAAFNRAA]] (''Anything, Anytime, Anywhere, For No Reason At All"'').
 ''"[[Intercontinental Absurdities|INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES]] (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to [[Dada]] in Action. In the early days, I didn't even know what to call the stuff my life was made of. You can imagine my delight when I discovered that someone in a distant land had the same idea -- AND a nice, short name for it."'' - [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]
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 ''"You know, that was what was great about the '20s, the way you could combine the concept of working class with Dada. God, they don't know what they missed in those days. (...) I've always appreciated Dada and I keep trying to get [[Ahmet Zappa|Ahmet]] to read about it, because that's him in the flesh, he's a genetic carrier of that particular gene that has been pretty much bred out of the species. It's like [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] says, It's not enough to want, you have to be. There are people that wish they were Dada but they'll never make it. He doesn't even know what it means, but he exudes it."'' - Frank Zappa, ''[[The Last Days of Frank Zappa]]'', [[Ben Watson]], Mojo Magazine, March 1994.
 ''"A long time ago, the music business was Dada - it used to be absurd. It used to be any kind of world. Now the music business is people who make endorsements for liquids with bubbles in them."'' - Frank Zappa, ''[[Father Of Invention (1993)]]'', People Magazine, 20 December 1993.
 ==See also==

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-[[AAAFNRAA]]
+'''Dada''' or '''Dadaism''' was an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, founded in 1916 in [[Switzerland]]. It set out to create anti-art, often humorous, shocking and very absurd. A classic example is Marcel Duchamp painting a mustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa by [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] and exhibiting an urinal as art.
-<blockquote>[[Intercontinental Absurdities|INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES]] (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to [[Dada]] in Action. In
+[[Louise Varèse]] was also a member of Dada.
-<blockquote><p>
+==Frank Zappa and Dadaism==
 In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our
 hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you
-have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one.</p>
+have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one. From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend
 to play either "[[How Could I Be Such A Fool|How Could I Be Such a Fool?]]" or "[[Who Are The Brain Police?|Who Are the Brain Police?]]" so I suggested that each
 member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related
 to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff
-of homemade prime-time [[Dada]].</p>
+of homemade prime-time [[Dada]]."'' - [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]
-<div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
-[[wikipedia:Dada|Dada Article]]
+==See also==
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]

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		+	<blockquote>[[Intercontinental Absurdities\|INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES]] (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to [[Dada]] in Action. In
		+	the early days, I didn't even know what to call the stuff my life was made of. You can imagine my
		+	delight when I discovered that someone in a distant land had the same idea -- AND a nice, short name
		+	for it.</blockquote>
		+	<div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
		+
		+
		+	<blockquote><p>
		+	In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our
		+	hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you
		+	have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one.</p>
		+	<p>From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend
		+	to play either "[[How Could I Be Such A Fool\|How Could I Be Such a Fool?]]" or "[[Who Are The Brain Police?\|Who Are the Brain Police?]]" so I suggested that each
		+	member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related
		+	to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff
		+	of homemade prime-time [[Dada]].</p>
		+	<div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
		+
		+	[[wikipedia:Dada\|Dada Article]]
		+
		+
	[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]		[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]