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.
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