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[[File:Zappa Uncle Sam.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.]]
 
[[File:Zappa Uncle Sam.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.]]
  
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* [[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]: "I'd like her do a nasty/on the White House lawn."
 
* [[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]: "I'd like her do a nasty/on the White House lawn."
 
* [[Camarillo Brillo]]  "... and every newt in Idaho" (...) "by the bush in Buffalo"
 
* [[Camarillo Brillo]]  "... and every newt in Idaho" (...) "by the bush in Buffalo"
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* [[A Chance Encounter In Cincinnati]]
 
* [[Cheepnis]]: "Then I watched a movie from [[Hollywood]]..."
 
* [[Cheepnis]]: "Then I watched a movie from [[Hollywood]]..."
 
* [[Cocaine Decisions]]
 
* [[Cocaine Decisions]]
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* [[It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary]]
 
* [[It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary]]
 
* [[It Can't Happen Here]]: "Who could imagine that they would freak out in [[wikipedia:Minnesota| Minnesota]] (...), [[wikipedia:Kansas| Kansas]], (...) [[wikipedia:Washington D.C.|Washington D.C.]]?"
 
* [[It Can't Happen Here]]: "Who could imagine that they would freak out in [[wikipedia:Minnesota| Minnesota]] (...), [[wikipedia:Kansas| Kansas]], (...) [[wikipedia:Washington D.C.|Washington D.C.]]?"
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* [[It Has Just Been Passed…]] is about a ridiculous law in Arizona.
 
* [[It's From Kansas]]
 
* [[It's From Kansas]]
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus]]
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus 1]]
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus 2]]
 
* [[Rhymin' Man]]  (about [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]])
 
* [[Rhymin' Man]]  (about [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]])
 
* [[Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk]]
 
* [[Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk]]
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* [[125th]]
 
* [[125th]]
 
* [[Alabama]]
 
* [[Alabama]]
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* [[Alaska]]
 
 
* [[Baltimore]]
 
* [[Baltimore]]
 
* [[Boney's Market]]
 
* [[Boney's Market]]
 
* [[Broadway]]
 
* [[Broadway]]
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* [[The Broadway]]
 
 
* [[Cafe au-Go-Go]]
 
* [[Cafe au-Go-Go]]
 
* [[California]]
 
* [[California]]
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* [[Chicago]]
 
* [[Chicago]]
 
* [[Cucamonga]]
 
* [[Cucamonga]]
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* [[Detroit]]
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* [[Downey]]
 
* [[Edwards Air Force Base]]
 
* [[Edwards Air Force Base]]
 
* [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]
 
* [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]
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* [[Irwindale]]
 
* [[Irwindale]]
 
* [[Jai Alai Fronton]]
 
* [[Jai Alai Fronton]]
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* [[Kansas]]
 
* [[Lancaster]]
 
* [[Lancaster]]
 
* [[Langley]]
 
* [[Langley]]
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* [[Lincoln Center]]
 
* [[Lincoln Center]]
 
* [[Los Angeles]]
 
* [[Los Angeles]]
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* [[Madison Square Garden]]
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* [[Massachusetts]]
 
* [[Miami]]
 
* [[Miami]]
 
* [[Mojave Desert]]
 
* [[Mojave Desert]]
 
* [[Monterey]]
 
* [[Monterey]]
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* [[Nevada]]
 
 
* [[New Jersey]]
 
* [[New Jersey]]
 
* [[New York]]
 
* [[New York]]
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* [[Park Avenue]]
 
* [[Park Avenue]]
 
* [[Pauley Pavilion]]  
 
* [[Pauley Pavilion]]  
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* [[Pennsylvania]]
 
* [[Playa del Rey]]
 
* [[Playa del Rey]]
 
* [[Pomona]]
 
* [[Pomona]]
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* [[Uptown Hall]]
 
* [[Uptown Hall]]
 
* [[Utah]]
 
* [[Utah]]
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* [[Ventura]]
 
* [[Virginia]]
 
* [[Virginia]]
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* [[Wall Street]]
 
* [[Washington]]
 
* [[Washington]]
 
* [[Westchester]]
 
* [[Westchester]]
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* [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
 
* [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
 
* [[American Medical Association]]
 
* [[American Medical Association]]
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* [[American Society of University Composers]]
 
 
* [[Barbie]], [[Ken]] and [[Cindy]]
 
* [[Barbie]], [[Ken]] and [[Cindy]]
 
* [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]]
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* [[Burger King]]
 
 
* [[Capitol Records]]
 
* [[Capitol Records]]
 
* [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
 
* [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
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* [[DownBeat]]
 
* [[DownBeat]]
 
* The [[Wikipedia:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
 
* The [[Wikipedia:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
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* The [[FCC]]
 
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* [[The First Lady]]
 
 
* [[Guitar Player Magazine]]
 
* [[Guitar Player Magazine]]
 
* [[Hustler]]
 
* [[Hustler]]
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* [[Look]]
 
* [[Look]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Free Press]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Free Press]]
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* [[Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art]]
 
 
* [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]]
 
* [[Lucky Strike]]
 
* [[Lucky Strike]]
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* [[Miami Pop Festival]]
 
* [[Miami Pop Festival]]
 
* [[Mormons]]
 
* [[Mormons]]
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* [[NBC]]
 
* [[The New York Times]]
 
* [[The New York Times]]
 
* [[Newport Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Newport Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Oldsmobile]]
 
* [[Oldsmobile]]
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* [[PCP]]
 
 
* [[PTA]]
 
* [[PTA]]
 
* [[Parents Music Resource Center]]
 
* [[Parents Music Resource Center]]
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* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
 
* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
 
* [[Village Voice]]
 
* [[Village Voice]]
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* [[Wall Street Journal]]
 
* [[Warner Brothers]]
 
* [[Warner Brothers]]
 
* [[The Washington Post]]
 
* [[The Washington Post]]
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* [[Aaron Copland]]
 
* [[Aaron Copland]]
 
* [[Robert Craft]]
 
* [[Robert Craft]]
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* [[Fred E. Graff]]
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* [[The World’s Greatest Sinner (The Film)|Fred E. Graff]]
 
* [[Michael Hedges]]
 
* [[Michael Hedges]]
 
* [[Charles Ives]]
 
* [[Charles Ives]]
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* [[Larry Fischer|Wild Man Fischer]]
 
* [[Larry Fischer|Wild Man Fischer]]
 
* [[Jon Fishman]]
 
* [[Jon Fishman]]
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* [[Flo & Eddie]]
 
* [[John Frusciante]]
 
* [[John Frusciante]]
 
* [[The Fugs]]
 
* [[The Fugs]]
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* [[Jefferson Airplane]]
 
* [[Jefferson Airplane]]
 
* [[Janis Joplin]]
 
* [[Janis Joplin]]
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* [[Henry Kaiser]]
 
 
* [[The Leaves]]
 
* [[The Leaves]]
 
* [[Little Richard]]
 
* [[Little Richard]]
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* [[Tiny Tim]]
 
* [[Tiny Tim]]
 
* [[The Tubes]]
 
* [[The Tubes]]
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* [[The Turtles]]
 
 
* [[Twisted Sister]]
 
* [[Twisted Sister]]
 
* [[Umphrey's McGee]]
 
* [[Umphrey's McGee]]
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* [[The Velvet Underground]]
 
* [[The Velvet Underground]]
 
* [[Frank Vignola]]
 
* [[Frank Vignola]]
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* [[The Village People]]
 
 
* [[Tom Waits]]
 
* [[Tom Waits]]
 
* [[Walk the Moon]]
 
* [[Walk the Moon]]
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* [[Pee-Wee Herman]]
 
* [[Pee-Wee Herman]]
 
* [[Larry King]]
 
* [[Larry King]]
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* [[Ted Koppel]]
 
 
* [[Harold Lloyd]]
 
* [[Harold Lloyd]]
 
* [[Soupy Sales]]
 
* [[Soupy Sales]]
 
* [[Rod Serling]]
 
* [[Rod Serling]]
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* [[The Three Stooges]]
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* [[Annie Sprinkle]]
  
 
==Politics, Religion and Business==
 
==Politics, Religion and Business==
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* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
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* [[Merrill Lynch]]
 
* [[Sun Myung Moon]]
 
* [[Sun Myung Moon]]
 
* [[Richard Nixon]]
 
* [[Richard Nixon]]
 
* [[Oliver North]]
 
* [[Oliver North]]
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* [[Bob Packwood]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
 
* [[Ronald Reagan]]
 
* [[Ronald Reagan]]
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* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
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* [[Ted Turner]]
 
 
* [[Religion|George Washington]]
 
* [[Religion|George Washington]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
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* [[The World Church]]
  
 
==Criminals==
 
==Criminals==
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==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
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* [[Richard E. Byrd]]
 
* [[Church of American Secular Humanism]]
 
* [[Church of American Secular Humanism]]
 
* [[The Flag Salute]]
 
* [[The Flag Salute]]

Latest revision as of 17:54, 1 January 2023


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 moniker "American composer" to describe himself in the most straightforward way.

Locations

References to American institutions and brands

Composers and conductors


Hip hop Musicians

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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