Jack Loeffler
Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, environmentalist, writer, radio producer, and sound-collage artist. He is the author or editor of many books, including Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West, Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews, and Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey (all from UNM Press).
Adventures with Ed
A Portrait of Abbey
Now in paperback, this is a biographical memoir of Edward Abby, a free spirited author who, like no other before him, has truly influenced the American West. "Jack's story elucidates and demythifies the Abbey legend, giving us powerful flesh and blood instead."--John Nichols
- Copyright year: 2003
La Musica de los Viejitos
Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte
Each song appears both in Spanish and English. For many, transcriptions of the musical notations are provided as well as graphic illustrations of dance technique.
- Copyright year: 1999
Thinking Like a Watershed
Voices from the West
- Copyright year: 2012
A Pagan Polemic
Reflections on Nature, Consciousness, and Anarchism
- Copyright year: 2023
Survival Along the Continental Divide
An Anthology of Interviews
Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.
- Copyright year: 2008
Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest
A Self-Portrait of a People
First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb.
- Copyright year: 1980
Headed into the Wind
A Memoir
Loeffler, a former jazz musician, fire lookout, museum curator, bioregionalist, and self-taught aural historian, shares his humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived.
- Copyright year: 2019