SAM: The Collection

Frank Zappa once asked, via album title, “Does humor belong in music?” The iconoclastic musician surely believed this was a rhetorical question, to be answered with an emphatic “YES!” After all, pop music and comedy have coexisted for centuries, for as long as there has been a so-called “popular music.” Zappa’s potty-mouthed provocations, Weird Al Yanko

He has gradually eschewed contemporary musical preoccupations with novel sonorities and formal schemes as foundational praxis, in favour of an engagement with a variety of musically contingent signifying practices, art-forms and disciplines relevant to his own creative aims.