Loft Jazz : Improvising New York in the 1970s
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| Title: | Loft Jazz : Improvising New York in the 1970s |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Michael C. Heller |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Jazz--New York (State)--New York--1971-1980--History and criticism, Jazz--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century |
| Categories: | MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520285408 9780520285415 9780520960893 |
