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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Locating the Williamsburg Avant-Garde
- Part I. Utopian Spaces for Sound
- Chapter One. The Emergence of the Williamsburg Scene: Warehouses, Squatter Parties, and Punk Roots, 1988–1994
- Chapter Two. Pirate Radio and Jumping the River: The Williamsburg Loft Scene, 1997–2004
- Chapter Three. Art Galleries, Clubs, and Bohemian Cafés: The Williamsburg DIY, 2001–2006
- Part II. Commercial Diy and the last Under-Ground Venues
- Chapter Four. A Point of Confluence: The Downtown Scene Comes to Zebulon, 2004–2006
- Chapter Five. A New Generation Emerges: Zebulon, 2005–2012
- Chapter Six. A Fractured Landscape: The Last Avant-Garde Music Spaces of Williamsburg, 2005–2014
- Afterword: Art, Experiment, and Capital
- Notes
- Art Sources for the Williamsburg Avant-Garde
- Bibliography
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