Loft Jazz

Improvising New York in the 1970s

Michael C. Heller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2016
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28541-5 (ISBN)

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The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. This book-length study of this period, traces its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination.

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.

Michael C. Heller is an ethnomusicologist, music historian, and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 music ex; 21 HTs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-28541-7 / 0520285417
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28541-5 / 9780520285415
Zustand	Neuware