Loft jazz: 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 Lowe...

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Main Author: Heller, Michael C. 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
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Online Access:BSB01
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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 work provides a 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
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2016
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Audience:Specialized
ISBN:9780520960893
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520285408.001.0001

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