Michael C. Heller 
Loft Jazz [EPUB ebook] 
Improvising New York in the 1970s

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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