Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s

By Michael C. Heller and Michael C. Heller

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520285417
• ISBN13: 9780520285415
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"