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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
Michael C. Heller is an ethnomusicologist, music historian, and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.
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