Editing Frank Zappa (section)

===Genres===
[[File:Frank Zappa 1973.JPG|thumb|Zappa performing in 1973]]
The general phases of Zappa's music have been variously categorized under [[blues rock]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/160383/weird-frank-zappa-documentary-review |title=How Weird Was Frank Zappa? |last=Semley |first=John |date=November 26, 2020 |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=June 26, 2023|quote=It was also the year Zappa and his band, a blues-rock outfit called the Mothers of Invention}}</ref> [[experimental rock]],<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite book|last=Rosenberg|first=Stuart|title=Rock and Roll and the American Landscape: The Birth of an Industry and the Expansion of the Popular Culture, 1955–1969|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=736Mu91q_fcC&pg=PA179|date=2009|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4401-6458-3|page=179}}</ref> [[jazz]],<ref name="Rosenberg"/> [[classical music|classical]],<ref name="Rosenberg"/> [[avant-pop]],<ref name="avanttribeca">{{cite news|last1=Kozinn|first1=Alann|title='Emerging Avant-Pop': From Charles Ives to Frank Zappa|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/arts/music/11mons.html|work= New York Times|date=May 11, 2006}}</ref> [[experimental pop]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Landy|first=Leigh|author-link=Leigh Landy|title=Experimental Music Notebooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7zpgjW3-WQC&pg=PA100|date=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-3-7186-5554-0}}</ref> [[comedy rock]],<ref name="Comedy rock"/> [[doo-wop]],<ref name="museobit"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Couture|first1=François|title=Cruising with Ruben & the Jets|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cruising-with-ruben-the-jets-mw0000196894 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> [[jazz fusion]],<ref name="semley2012"/> [[progressive rock]],<ref name="semley2012"/> [[proto-prog]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Greene|first=Doyle|title=Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELeaCwAAQBAJ|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2403-7|page=182}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=ELeaCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 Extract of page 182]</ref> [[avant-jazz]],<ref name="semley2012"/> and [[psychedelic rock]].<ref name="semley2012">{{cite web |last1=Semley |first1=John |title=Where to dive into Frank Zappa's weird, unwieldy discography |url=https://www.avclub.com/where-to-dive-into-frank-zappa-s-weird-unwieldy-discog-1798232804 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=August 9, 2012 |access-date=March 14, 2019 |archive-date=2017-12-22  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052233/https://music.avclub.com/where-to-dive-into-frank-zappa-s-weird-unwieldy-discog-1798232804 |url-status=live }}</ref>