--- product_id: 338616810 title: "Duke University Press Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979" price: "¥12011" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/338616810-duke-university-press-love-saves-the-day-a-history-american store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # 300+ exclusive interviews 20+ special DJ discographies 70+ rare photos Duke University Press Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 **Price:** ¥12011 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🕺 Relive the groove that changed a generation — don’t miss the ultimate disco chronicle! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Duke University Press Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 - **How much does it cost?** ¥12011 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/338616810-duke-university-press-love-saves-the-day-a-history-american) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Visual Time Capsule:** Over 70 rare, never-before-seen photos capturing the raw energy and style of disco's golden era. - • **Dive into Disco's DNA:** Explore 300+ firsthand stories from iconic DJs, producers, and party legends shaping the 70s dance scene. - • **Ultimate DJ Playlists:** Access 20+ curated discographies revealing the secret records that defined a decade of dance. - • **Cultural Mosaic Unveiled:** Discover how disco bridged race, sexuality, and urban life, fueling a movement beyond music. - • **From Underground to Mainstream:** Trace the explosive rise of American dance music from intimate lofts to nationwide phenomenon. ## Overview Love Saves the Day is the definitive history of 1970s American dance music culture, featuring over 300 interviews with key figures, 70+ rare photos, and 20 specialized DJ discographies. Authored by Tim Lawrence, it chronicles the rise of disco from underground New York clubs to a nationwide cultural movement, highlighting the social, musical, and political forces that shaped the era. ## 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. Review: The Truth About Disco - Thank you Tim Lawrence. This book is the antedote to all the haters out there who still believe that "Disco Sucks" after the post-Comiskey Park backlash. This book is such an amazing and wonderfully readable document that I would recommend anyone interested in 20th century American musical history, or the [...]/black urban experience of the 1970's, or relatively recent New York history read it. Of course if you're interested in disco music or dance music the book is absolutely essential. This book goes much deeper than the usual Studio 54 cliches that people associate with the genre (although Studio 54 is included, of course) and discusses the origins of the sound and the largely unhearalded people who made this scene happen. David Mancuso is described as a pivotable person here, and the folks who were there will confirm it. The book begins in his legendary club, The Loft, and lovingly details his obsession with sound and the disco experience. Other innovators from the early 70's are also featured including Francis Grasso, Steve D'Acquisto, Bob Casey, and many more. The scene is chronicaled from humble beginnings through the glory years of the mid 70's and ends the decade with the backlash in full swing in mainstream culture but continuing to thrive in clubs like Paradise Garage and Better Days. Along the way you meet producers like Walter Gibbons and Tom Moulton who made some of the classic recordings of the era, and Lawrence takes the time to explain what is so remarkable about their work. You also get delightfully naughty stories about some of the key players in the scene including DJ's, artists, and of course, the patrons that illustrate some of the excesses of the time . Personally, I think that it's this superb combination of detailed research and bitchy gossip that makes the book so thoroughly readable and fun. I loved reading this book; the only drawback for me was that I couldn't help pining for the days when New York club culture was this incredible before AIDS and Rudy Guilliani conspired to very nearly kill it off (fortunately they weren't entirely successful). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Review: Love Saves the Day = LSD - For a movement that came to define a decade, disco has never really gone through the historical grinder. As a cultural phenomenon, it's been appraised in the tangential terms of celebrity and bad fashion. As a musical idea, it's been written off as an embarrassment, a best-forgotten affront to the righteous enterprise of rock. Of course, disco did abound in stars, flares, and dicey musical excess. But as Tim Lawrence illustrates in Love Saves The Day, the story of disco is richer than its battered reputation lets on. Surveying the roots of a movement that would become an enormous lifestyle industry, Lawrence starts with the handful of downtown New Yorkers who set disco in motion in the late '60s. David Mancuso was a grizzled urban hippie who charted musical journeys in The Loft, a private apartment open to an eclectic mix of people—white, black, straight, gay—on utopian grounds. While the idea of the discotheque had already existed in New York, The Loft expanded it into a playground for dancing and prancing. A DJ before the distinction bore notice, Mancuso played floaty psychedelic records alongside string-swept soul and galloping African rhythms, placing an emphasis on mood and movement that signaled sounds to come. He was also a hi-fi fiend: He commissioned custom-made speakers and gear (including a $3,000 turntable needle) that goosed up drum sounds and reached previously unheard high-end peaks. While Mancuso had his disciples at The Loft, a growing number of gay clubs and bars forced the relaxation of male-on-male dancing laws, reveling in the newly open environment that would fuel disco's glamorous rise. The parallel lines of changing music and changing social norms bracket all of Love Saves The Day, an exceedingly well-reported history that reads as too focused on occasion. Regarding the music, Lawrence traces the disco sound through its roots in Philly soul and its debt to machine music flown over from Europe. He also surveys the birth of the DJ as showman, telling gossipy stories about names still getting their proper due, and tracing the lineage of turntable tricks most often attributed to hip-hop. On the social front, Lawrence proves most pointed when surveying disco's sexual and racial swirl. He keeps a steady eye on the gayness that circulated through disco, even at its suburbs-storming peak, and comes down hard on the hints of homophobia that stoked its storied backlash. Some of the abundant details seem geared to insiders only, but on the whole, Love Saves The Day works as an eye-opening history of a movement that found a nation taking time out to dance. ## Features - 70-plus images - over 300 interviews w/ DJs, producers, party goes, and more - 20 special discographies - author also penned Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980 - 1983 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #248,251 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #124 in Dance #154 in Music Reference #25,763 in Higher & Continuing Education Textbooks | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 146 Reviews | ## Images ![Duke University Press Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811Wq7YaOAL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Truth About Disco *by R***R on 22 January 2007* Thank you Tim Lawrence. This book is the antedote to all the haters out there who still believe that "Disco Sucks" after the post-Comiskey Park backlash. This book is such an amazing and wonderfully readable document that I would recommend anyone interested in 20th century American musical history, or the [...]/black urban experience of the 1970's, or relatively recent New York history read it. Of course if you're interested in disco music or dance music the book is absolutely essential. This book goes much deeper than the usual Studio 54 cliches that people associate with the genre (although Studio 54 is included, of course) and discusses the origins of the sound and the largely unhearalded people who made this scene happen. David Mancuso is described as a pivotable person here, and the folks who were there will confirm it. The book begins in his legendary club, The Loft, and lovingly details his obsession with sound and the disco experience. Other innovators from the early 70's are also featured including Francis Grasso, Steve D'Acquisto, Bob Casey, and many more. The scene is chronicaled from humble beginnings through the glory years of the mid 70's and ends the decade with the backlash in full swing in mainstream culture but continuing to thrive in clubs like Paradise Garage and Better Days. Along the way you meet producers like Walter Gibbons and Tom Moulton who made some of the classic recordings of the era, and Lawrence takes the time to explain what is so remarkable about their work. You also get delightfully naughty stories about some of the key players in the scene including DJ's, artists, and of course, the patrons that illustrate some of the excesses of the time . Personally, I think that it's this superb combination of detailed research and bitchy gossip that makes the book so thoroughly readable and fun. I loved reading this book; the only drawback for me was that I couldn't help pining for the days when New York club culture was this incredible before AIDS and Rudy Guilliani conspired to very nearly kill it off (fortunately they weren't entirely successful). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love Saves the Day = LSD *by F***U on 15 December 2016* For a movement that came to define a decade, disco has never really gone through the historical grinder. As a cultural phenomenon, it's been appraised in the tangential terms of celebrity and bad fashion. As a musical idea, it's been written off as an embarrassment, a best-forgotten affront to the righteous enterprise of rock. Of course, disco did abound in stars, flares, and dicey musical excess. But as Tim Lawrence illustrates in Love Saves The Day, the story of disco is richer than its battered reputation lets on. Surveying the roots of a movement that would become an enormous lifestyle industry, Lawrence starts with the handful of downtown New Yorkers who set disco in motion in the late '60s. David Mancuso was a grizzled urban hippie who charted musical journeys in The Loft, a private apartment open to an eclectic mix of people—white, black, straight, gay—on utopian grounds. While the idea of the discotheque had already existed in New York, The Loft expanded it into a playground for dancing and prancing. A DJ before the distinction bore notice, Mancuso played floaty psychedelic records alongside string-swept soul and galloping African rhythms, placing an emphasis on mood and movement that signaled sounds to come. He was also a hi-fi fiend: He commissioned custom-made speakers and gear (including a $3,000 turntable needle) that goosed up drum sounds and reached previously unheard high-end peaks. While Mancuso had his disciples at The Loft, a growing number of gay clubs and bars forced the relaxation of male-on-male dancing laws, reveling in the newly open environment that would fuel disco's glamorous rise. The parallel lines of changing music and changing social norms bracket all of Love Saves The Day, an exceedingly well-reported history that reads as too focused on occasion. Regarding the music, Lawrence traces the disco sound through its roots in Philly soul and its debt to machine music flown over from Europe. He also surveys the birth of the DJ as showman, telling gossipy stories about names still getting their proper due, and tracing the lineage of turntable tricks most often attributed to hip-hop. On the social front, Lawrence proves most pointed when surveying disco's sexual and racial swirl. He keeps a steady eye on the gayness that circulated through disco, even at its suburbs-storming peak, and comes down hard on the hints of homophobia that stoked its storied backlash. Some of the abundant details seem geared to insiders only, but on the whole, Love Saves The Day works as an eye-opening history of a movement that found a nation taking time out to dance. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dj Bibel *by T***S on 7 January 2023* Das beste Buch über den Clubsound und DJ Kultur. 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