Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s
Michael C. Heller
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. This book provides a 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.
Keywords:
New York,
loft jazz,
1970s,
Lower Manhattan,
collectivism,
urban renewal,
experimentalist,
underground,
radical politics,
self-determination
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520285408 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520285408.001.0001 |
