Nonsense Music Pages

John Cage's music, if not properly nonsensical, can well be considered paradoxical and his circuses are based on the incongruous juxtaposition of very different musical styles; here are some links:

• Cage on the Internet
• SILENCE: the John Cage discussion list
• The John Cage Online Celebration

The Beatles and in particular John Lennon often wrote Nonsense songs, the encyclopedic rec.music.beatles Home Page is certainly the first place to look; there you will also find a lot of other links.

Frank Zappa also often wrote nonsensical music with nonsense lyrics, he is certainly one of the most successful rockers on the Web:

• The REAL Frank Zappa Home Page is the official site.
• The Black Page contains all kind of materials, FAQs, discographies, bibliographies, pictures and anything you can imagine.
• The St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage has all the lyrics.
• Hometown Sausage Jamboree shows how Zappa manipulated his music: excellent!
• Pound for a Brown: A Frank Zappa Web Site
• The Frank Zappa Way-Cool Area
• The Musdshark Dance Lesson Video Archive

Another group with a penchant for Nonsense are the Grateful Dead, David Dodd has written an essay on theit use of nonsense in the lyrics.

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