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

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE -- 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives -- 2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements -- 3. The Jazz Loft Era -- 4. Freedom -- 5. Community -- 6. Space -- 7. Archive -- 8. Aftermaths and Legacies -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1971-1980 -- History and criticism Jazz -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Jazz Jazz -- Social aspects New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520960893 0520960890

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