Love Saves the Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979
£18.00
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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Duke University Press, Illustrated edition (2 Feb. 2004) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 522 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0822331985 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0822331988 |
| Dimensions | 15.57 x 3.33 x 23.5 cm |
by Maugtner
This is a wonderful read! If you have any interest in the music or period you’ve got to get this. Special mention goes to the playlists that accompany many of the djs recollections. This book is meticulously researched and incredibly readable. If I had any quibble: it is sometimes difficult to separate which club is which in the first third of the book. Very minor.
One other issue is the kindle version. It’s terrible: the photos look bad on the screen. Worse are the formatting and spelling mistakes. It’s a real shame that the author and editors worked so hard on his for it to be mangled on delivery! Not good enough amazon I paid £15.
by James Tobin
Comprehensive, well thought and detailed dance through the disco era!!
by Damian from Galway
A fascinating and pulsating account of the dance and disco scene in New York during the 1970s. Tim Lawrence’s highly engrossing narrative literally takes you out on to the dance floor of the Loft, the Gallery or even Studio 54.
The socioeconomic analysis of New York is equally fascinating and Lawrence manages to weave in all the major and more importantly, the minor players into one deeply researched disco tome. I would describe it as a monumental and highly informative.
by Amazon Customer
Essential reading for anyone working in dance music today , club culture is under attack once again so let’s know our history and defend the legacy and all that it promises.
by Amazon Customer
Fantastic read of this period of time
by ralph alberts
If you like house music or disco or nightclubs or any blooody thing then this is a must read ! So well researched…..
by Paul Jeffery
As a writer of a Modern Jive Dance Blog I’m always interested in the origins of the great music we dance to. As some one who was brought up on Motown and Philadelphia International I always knew the ‘70s were an important resource of great dance music. What I hadn’t realised was how it grew out of a New York club culture that transformed the way dance music was perceived and produced. I’d already heard of Tom Moulton before reading this book, but I loved reading more detail about the man who created the studio remix. In an article on my blog I once implored everyone who loved dancing to listen to Tom’s remix of New York City’s I’m doing fine now. I don’t think that the present generation know just how much they owe to the people who created the first wave of music especially designed for the dance floor.
by slabface
A highly exacting (whilst highly readable) journey through the evolution of DJ’ing in seventies clubland.
Even more essential based on the contemporary playlists for all the legends included in the story (Alfredo, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles et al).