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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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