Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979Duke University Press, 2003 - 498 Seiten 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 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. |
Inhalt
beginnings House Parties and Discotheques | 5 |
consolidation Party Pariahs and the Path to Permanent Revolution | 33 |
pollination The Rise of the Downtown Party Network | 55 |
recognition The Crystallization of a Sound | 83 |
visibility The Message of Love and the Disco Mix | 117 |
expansion Record Pools Music Labels New Clubs | 155 |
prominence Forums Formats Franchises | 205 |
ascendancy Eurodisco Midtown Downtown OutofTown | 251 |
dominance Disco Takes Over | 303 |
turbulence Backlash and Survival | 363 |
Epilogue | 433 |
Notes | 443 |
Selected Discography | 457 |
Selected Bibliography | 473 |
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