Description
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"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." -- Dave Mandl * The Wire *
"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." -- Daniel Barbiero * Point of Departure *
"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." -- Patrick Brennan * Arteidolia *
Book Information
ISBN 9781478019374
Author Cisco Bradley
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 635g