Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence (Paperback, 2004)
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Disco is the music that America tried to forget. By the end of the 1970s Saturday Night Fever rocketed through the marketing stratosphere, Studio 54 was dominating the front pages, and the charts were controlled by the likes of the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, and the Village People. But then radio talk jock Steve Dahl publicly detonated a pile of 40,000 disco records during the interval of a Chicago White Sox double-header in July 1979, and by the end of the year some 20,000 discotheques had hastily closed. Opening with David Mancuso's seminal Love Saves the Day Valentine's party in February 1970, Tim Lawrence presses the rewind button and tells the definitive story of disco -- from its murky subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to the out-of-town networks that emerged in the suburbs and alternative urban hotspots such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New Jersey. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like liquid vinyl.They are interspersed with a detailed analysis of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin. Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including John Jellybean Benitez, Michael Cappello, Ken Cayre, Alec Costandinos, Steve D'Acquisto, Michael Fesco, Rochelle Fleming, Francis Grasso, Alan Harris, Loleatta Holloway, Francois Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, David Mancuso, Vince Montana, Giorgio Moroder, Tom Moulton, Steve Ostrow, Marvin Schlachter, Nicky Siano, Judy Weinstein, Robert Williams and Earl Young. It also contains a series of specially compiled discographies and a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822331988
eBay Product ID (ePID)87806911
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Book TitleLove Saves the Day: a History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
AuthorTim Lawrence
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
Number of Pages528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTim Lawrence
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 12 Apr, 2024
Useful but not inspiring.
Rather glum reading, to focused on limited characters.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
