Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s

Author/Contributor(s):	Heller, Michael C
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	12/13/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.