Loft Jazz: Improvising New York In The 1970S - 9780520285415

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.

• | Author: Michael C. Heller
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Music
• | ISBN-10: 0520285417
• | ISBN-13: 9780520285415