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University of California Press
- Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations and Table
- pp. ix-x
- Part One: Histories
- pp. 17-18
- 3. The Jazz Loft Era
- pp. 34-62
- Part Two: Trajectories
- pp. 63-64
- 4. Freedom
- pp. 65-93
- 5. Community
- pp. 94-126
- 7. Archive
- pp. 145-178
- 8. Aftermaths and Legacies
- pp. 179-190
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 191-194
- Bibliography
- pp. 229-244
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520960893
Related ISBN(s)
9780520285408
MARC Record
OCLC
963933739
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2017-10-20
Language
English
Open Access
No