LOVE SAVES THE DAY A book from Tim Lawrence

[blackwax]

Hi all

for those that are not familier with the book

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 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 favourite 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.

>>> pps some reviews...
>>>
>>> "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 wanting some serious unbiased fact-checking all the way to
>>> the casual music lover curious for juicy anecdotes. It's about time!"
>>> François K., DJ and founder/president of Wave Music
>>>
>>> "Love Saves the Day is what we need for generations to come: it's the
>>> real history of dance music and DJ/club culture." Louie Vega,
>>> dj/producer, Masters At Work & Nuyorican Soul
>>>
>>> "As authoritative as it is gossipy, Love Saves the Day is the
>>> ultimate
>>> backstage view of disco, the underground phenomenon that ended up
>>> defining a decade. Tim Lawrence talked to virtually everyone who
>>> shaped
>>> '70s urban nightlife, but he keeps his prime focus on the DJs who
>>> created its seductive soundtrack. With them as your witty,
>>> opinionated
>>> guides, you'll find yourself well past the velvet ropes, deep inside
>>> a
>>> scene that has never been
>>> so thoroughly or lovingly illuminated." Vince Aletti, Village Voice
>>>
>>> "I wish I'd written it myself." Barry Walters, Senior Music Critic,
>>> Rolling Stone
>>>
>>> "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 hubristic, 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

Available from:
www.blackwaxrecords.com
or:
Amazon (US)
Amazon (UK)

[blackwax]

the front cover

[tdf]

best book on our nitelife by far. Essential.