Love Saves the Day - A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979
Tim Lawrence
Duke University Press (US) / 2004 / ISBN 0-8223-3198-5
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By Tim Lawrence (Duke University Press)
British author Tim Lawrence sent DiscoMusic.com a copy of his insightful 498 page book, which delves headfirst into the history of Disco and dance music in the U.S. It is a great read based on over 300 interviews Lawrence conducted with those involved first hand in Disco. Makes a great birthday or Christmas gift.
From the back cover:
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 spinóas well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fuelled 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 cataloguing some 600 releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.
"At long last, a candid, detailed, and authoritative look back on one of dance music's most seminal moments in time. This book on the genesis of the movement in 1970s New York will delight anyone from the researcher some serious unbiased fact-checking all the way to the casual music lovercurious for juicy anecdotes. It's about time."
-- François Kevorkian (DJ and founder/president of Waves Music)
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