Michel Delville
Belgian guitarist, composer, writer and academic; professor of English literature and leader of the progressive/jazz group The Wrong Object; author and editor working on modernist literature and speculative/the fantastic writing.
Books
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1. Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart And The Secret History Of Maximalism
A wide-ranging study that treats two maverick American musicians as architects of a deliberately excessive aesthetic, tracing how their dense, polystylistic, and often satirical approaches to composition and performance constitute a distinct ‘maximalist’ practice; the book analyzes key recordings and artistic strategies to show how complex arrangements, virtuosic demands, genre-mixing, and social critique push against prevailing minimalist and commercial tendencies, situating these artists in relation to modernist and postmodernist currents while exploring their cultural context, creative processes, and lasting influence on experimental rock and broader musical modernity.
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