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Author:

Heller, Michael C., 1981- author.

Title:

Loft jazz : improvising New York in the 1970s / Michael C. Heller.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Jazz--New York--New York--1971-1980--History and criticism.
Jazz--History--New York--New York--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Fragmented memories and activist archives -- Influences, antecedents, early engagements -- The jazz loft era -- Freedom -- Community -- Space -- Archive -- Aftermaths and legacies.

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. 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"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0520285417
9780520285415
0520285409
9780520285408

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958262848

LCCN:

2016040707

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)