Loft jazz : improvising New York in the 1970s / Michael C. Heller.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2016Description: 264 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520285415 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1971-1980 -- History and criticism | Jazz -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.6'5'09747 Summary: 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. This book provides a 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. This book provides a 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.
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