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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 Paperback - 2004

by Tim Lawrence

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From the publisher

Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America's suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami.

Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era's most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin-as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music's tireless engine.

Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies-listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade-and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.

First line

David Mancuso was born into an unhappy family on 20 October 1944.

From the rear cover

"At last disco gets the history it deserves. Tim Lawrence tells the story of ten years that shook the musical world with the scholar's concern for detail and the fan's concern for honor. Great tales of the humble and the ahubristic, of money, sex, and the utopia of the sound system. Illuminating and moving."--Simon Frith, author of "Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music "

Details

  • Title Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979
  • Author Tim Lawrence
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 498
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2004-02-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Discography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822331988 / 0822331985
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - New York (State) - New, Dance music - New York (State) - New York -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003010839
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.484

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2004, Page 302
  • Lambda Book Report, 02/01/2004, Page 13
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2004, Page 116

About the author

Tim Lawrence leads the Music Culture: Theory and Production degree program at the University of East London. He has written liner notes for David Mancuso Presents the Loft and Masters at Work: The Tenth Anniversary Collection. The author's website for the book is available at www.timlawrence.info

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