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==Politics, Religion and Business==
 
==Politics, Religion and Business==
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* [[Religion|George Washington]]
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* [[Spiro Agnew]]
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* [[Jim Bakker]]
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* [[George H.W. Bush]]
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* [[Jimmy Carter]]
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* [[Jerry Falwell]]
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* [[Larry Flynt]]
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* [[Barry Goldwater]]
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* [[Al Gore]] and [[Tipper Gore]]
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* [[Billy Graham]]
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* [[Orrin Hatch]]
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* [[L. Ron Hubbard]]
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* [[Reverend Hymers]]
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* [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]]
 
* [[Religion|Thomas Jefferson]]
 
* [[Religion|Thomas Jefferson]]
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* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
 
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
 
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
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* [[Spiro Agnew]]
 
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* [[Richard Nixon]]
 
 
* [[Henry Kissinger]]
 
* [[Henry Kissinger]]
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* [[Jimmy Carter]]
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* [[C. Everett Koop]]
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* [[Ronald Reagan]]
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* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
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* [[Richard Nixon]]
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* [[Oliver North]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
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* [[Oliver North]]
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* [[Ronald Reagan]]
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* [[C. Everett Koop]]
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* [[Oral Roberts]]
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* [[George H.W. Bush]]
 
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* [[Billy Graham]]
 
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* [[Jerry Falwell]]
 
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* [[Jim Bakker]] and [[Tammy Bakker]]
 
 
* [[Pat Robertson]]
 
* [[Pat Robertson]]
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* [[John D. Rockefeller IV]]
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* [[George Lincoln Rockwell]]
 
* [[Jimmy Swaggart]]
 
* [[Jimmy Swaggart]]
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* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
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* [[Oral Roberts]]
 
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* [[L. Ron Hubbard]]
 
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* [[Reverend Hymers]]
 
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* [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]]
 
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* [[George Lincoln Rockwell]]
 
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* [[Al Gore]] and [[Tipper Gore]]
 
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* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
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* [[Orrin Hatch]]
 
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* [[Barry Goldwater]]
 
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* [[John D. Rockefeller IV]]
 
 
* [[Ted Turner]]
 
* [[Ted Turner]]
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* [[Religion|George Washington]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
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* [[Larry Flynt]]
 
  
 
==Criminals==
 
==Criminals==

Revision as of 11:37, 27 August 2021

Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.

While Zappa was born and raised in the United States he was often critical of the American government, its foreign policy, organized religion, media, corporations and the consumer culture.

Track and album references to America

  • Various characters associated with the U.S.A. can be seen in You Are What You Is (The Music Video), including President Reagan, a Ku Klux Klan member and a Playboy Bunny
  • Clean American Version, a text that can also be seen on the artwork for Absolutely Free
  • The M.O.I. American Pageant is the name of side two of Absolutely Free (track 10-15 on the CD version)
  • Zappa often used the monicker "American composer" to describe himself in the most straightforward way.

Locations

References to American institutions and brands

Composers and conductors

Blues singers

Doo-wop and R&B singers

Jazz Composers

Rock, Folk and Pop Artists

Writers

Comedians and TV Presenters

Politics, Religion and Business

Criminals


Fictional characters


Scientists

Painters

Bandmembers, Supporting Cast, Family Members and Other

Note: Most of the people listed here are or were Americans and therefore would be too numerous to list each one of them indvidually on this page. Occasionally some of them might be born in another country:

Miscellaneous

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