Bradley The Williamsburg Avant-Garde

Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2401-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the avant-garde music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and early 2010s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradley, Cisco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.