Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s

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
Published: 12/13/2016
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780520285415
ISBN10: 0520285417
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban

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