Loft Jazz

Improvising New York in the 1970s

AvMichael C. Heller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520285408

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Michael C. Heller is an ethnomusicologist, music historian, and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.

Recensioner i media

"[Heller] paints a kaleidoscopic portrait... inherently fascinating." The Wire "Heller - through dozens of interviews and painstaking research that included full access to the ample personal archive of percussionist Juma Sultan, a pivotal figure in the movement - refreshingly moves beyond reductionist notions." Village Voice "Using interviews and archival research, Michael G. Heller examines the scene's rise and eventual fall from historical, pedagogical and sociological perspectives... [He] itemizes what differentiated Loft Jazz from other styles and how its creation, dissemination and demise affected innovative jazz." The New York City Jazz Record

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations and Table 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives PART ONE: HISTORIES2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements 3. The Jazz Loft Era PART TWO: TRAJECTORIES4. Freedom 5. Community 6. Space 7. Archive 8. Aftermaths and Legacies Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index