Love Saves the Day

Lawrence Tim Lawrence

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 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.

Sujets

• USA
• Electronic music
• Dance
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 02 février 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822385110
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

love saves the day

love saves the day

a history of american dance music culture, 1970–1979

tim lawrence

duke university press durham and london 2003

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1. beginnings

2. consolidation

3. pollination

4. recognition

5. visibility

6. expansion

7. prominence

8. ascendancy

9. dominance

10. turbulence

contents

Figures vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 

House Parties and Discotheques 

Party Pariahs and the Path to Permanent Revolution 

The Rise of the Downtown Party Network 

The Crystallization of a Sound 

The Message of Love and the Disco Mix 

Record Pools, Music Labels, New Clubs 

Forums, Formats, Franchises 

Eurodisco, Midtown, Downtown, Out-of-Town 

Disco Takes Over 

Backlash and Survival 

Epilogue 

Notes 

Selected Discography 

Selected Bibliography 

Index 

figures

David Mancuso in the orphanage  David Mancuso and friends  Loft invitation: Spanky and the Gang  Michael Fesco at the Ice Palace  Francis Grasso at Café Francis  Michael Cappello at Café Francis  Bob Casey at the Ice Palace  Steve Ostrow and Richard Orbach at the Continental Baths  David Sokoloff  Ray Yeates  Alex Rosner landing in the United States  David Rodriguez at the Limelight  Bobbyat Le Jardin  John Addison at Le Jardin  Dancers at Le Jardin  Frankie Knuckles at the Gallery  The Gallery dance floor  The Trammps  Bobbyand Michael Cappello at Le Jardin  Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan at the Continental Baths  Dance floor at the new Gallery  View of Flamingo from the turntables  Decorating Flamingo exterior  Billy Smith  Barry White  Michael Cappello at Le Jardin 

Record Pool meeting  Michael Cappello at the Record Pool  Record Pool party at Prince Street  Donna Summer with Neil Bogart  Gloria Gaynor at Le Jardin  The new crowd at Le Jardin  Jorge La Torre  Flamingo flyer  Nicky Siano and Larry Levan at the Gallery  David Mancuso inside the Prince Street Loft  Walter Gibbons  Double Exposure  David Mancuso outside the Prince Street Loft  Nicky Siano as Miss Libby  Nicky Siano, Robert DeSilva, and friends  Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, and Richard Rome  Loleatta Holloway  Walter Gibbons at Blank Tapes Studios  Mel Cheren, Tom Moulton, and Armen Boladin  Steve Rubell outside Studio   Richie Kaczor, Nicky Siano, and David Rodriguez  Richie Kaczor and Steve Rubell at Studio   François Kevorkian at New York, New York  Flamingo flyer  Nicky Siano, Michael Gomes, and Miss Millie,   Frankie Knuckles and Siegried Schuh in the Warehouse  Outside the Warehouse on South Jefferson  John Travolta at theSaturday Night Feverpreproduction party Neil Bogart and Donna Summer at the  Disco Forum  Studio   Studio  jeans ad for women  Studio  jeans ad for men  Norman Harris, Bunny Sigler, and Tom Moulton  François Kevorkian at Sunshine Sound Studios  Chic at Xenon  Jim Burgess  The Village People at Roseland  Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage 

viii figures

David DePino, Judy Weinstein, and Joey Llanos  Anti-disco rioters at Comiskey Park  Grace Jones at Roseland  Frankie Knuckles, Robert Williams, and Steve Robinson  The Warehouse dance floor  Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse  Finalists in the Flamingo ‘‘Tetas’’ contest  Divine and Andy Warhol  The Paradise Garage dance floor  The Paradise Garage team 

figures ix