Bradley Cisco Bradley

Williamsburg Avant-Garde (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene's social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Building on the neighborhood's punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, postpunk, and noise musicians and groups---from Mary Halvorson, Zs, and Nate Wooley to Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, and Darius Jones---produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York's experimental culture. In 2005, New York's rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn and in Queens. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; he helps readers better understand the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478024019
• Artikelnr.: 68955156

Autorenporträt

Cisco Bradley is Associate Professor of History at the Pratt Institute and author of Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Locating the Williamsburg Avant-Garde  1
Part I. Utopian Spaces for Sound
1. The Emergence of the Williamsburg Scene: Warehouses, Squatter Parties,
and Punk Roots, 1988–1994  21
2. Pirate Radio and Jumping the River: The Williamsburg Loft Scene,
1997–2004  55
3. Art Galleries, Clubs, and Bohemian Cafés: The Williamsburg DIY,
2001–2006  100
Part II. Commercial DIY and the Last Underground Venues
4. A Point of Confluence: The Downtown Scene Comes to Zebulon, 2004–2006 
145
5. A New Generation Emerges: Zebulon, 2005–2012  189
6. A Fractured Landscape: The Last Avant-Garde Music Spaces of
Williamsburg, 2005–2014  228
Afterword. Art, Experiment, and Capital  263
Notes  271
Art Sources for the Williamsburg Avant-Garde  335
Bibliography  343
Index  367