Lawrence Tim - Love Saves The Day A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970 - 1979 - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 No Ho 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.
Title: Love Saves The Day A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970 - 1979
Author(s): Lawrence Tim
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9780822331988
Pages: 528 Pages, 73 Photos And Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/2/2004
Category: Electronic Music