Loft Jazz

Improvising New York in the 1970s

• Author(s): Michael C. Heller,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0520960890
  ISBN_13: 9780520960893
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz , Music / History & Criticism , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , History / United States / State & Local / General ,

Description:... 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.