Loft Jazz (eBook)

Improvising New York in the 1970s

Michael C. Heller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96089-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. Loft Jazz provides the first book-length study of this period, tracing its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations and Table
1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives
PART ONE: HISTORIES

2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements
3. The Jazz Loft Era

PART TWO: TRAJECTORIES

4. Freedom
5. Community
6. Space
7. Archive
8. Aftermaths and Legacies

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Schlagworte: 1970s • 1980s • American Music • avant garde artists • Avant Garde Music • black artists • black culture • Black Musicians • Collectivism • Experimental Aesthetics • history of jazz • history of music • Jazz • jazz culture • jazz lofts • Jazz Music • jazz politics • loft jazz • loft jazz era • Lofts • Lower Manhattan • Manhattan • music • Music History • Musicians • music politics • New York • new york history • NYC • nyc culture • nyc music • radical culture • radical music • underground archives • underground music • Urban renewal • warehouse music
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96089-0 / 0520960890
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96089-3 / 9780520960893