Paperback
|
English
€34.50
- From €15,- no shipping costs.
- 30 days to change your mind and return physical products
Description
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.
"The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most important music scenes of the past 30-plus years."
"Well-researched. . . . Drawing on these first-hand accounts as well as on his access to the personal archives of some of the artists involved, Bradley provides a lively account of the neighborhood’s vital experimental music movement from its underground beginnings in various squats and abandoned industrial sites to its eventual dissolution in the face of rising rents and gentrification."
"One of the most important strengths of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is that it elaborates with equal care, regardless of idiom or generation, on the intentions, ideas and aesthetic strategies of the highly diverse range of artists who could find a platform there. . . . What makes Bradley’s archeology at the same time so urgently contemporary is that so many of the artists covered are alive and active right now, even if a good number of them may still be underground."
"Bradley’s vivid portraits of the dynamic interactions between musicians, curators, and other participants behind the Williamsburg avant-garde scene are made possible by way of his extensive interviews with scene participants that provide the bulk of the data in his book. These interviewees illuminate important information that would be difficult to find in any written record."
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.
"The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most important music scenes of the past 30-plus years."
"Well-researched. . . . Drawing on these first-hand accounts as well as on his access to the personal archives of some of the artists involved, Bradley provides a lively account of the neighborhood’s vital experimental music movement from its underground beginnings in various squats and abandoned industrial sites to its eventual dissolution in the face of rising rents and gentrification."
"One of the most important strengths of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is that it elaborates with equal care, regardless of idiom or generation, on the intentions, ideas and aesthetic strategies of the highly diverse range of artists who could find a platform there. . . . What makes Bradley’s archeology at the same time so urgently contemporary is that so many of the artists covered are alive and active right now, even if a good number of them may still be underground."
"Bradley’s vivid portraits of the dynamic interactions between musicians, curators, and other participants behind the Williamsburg avant-garde scene are made possible by way of his extensive interviews with scene participants that provide the bulk of the data in his book. These interviewees illuminate important information that would be difficult to find in any written record."
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.