Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music by Tim Lawrence
By Tim Lawrence
Tales of nocturnal trips, radical tune making, and polymorphous sexuality stream in the course of the arteries of Love Saves the Day like scorching liquid vinyl. they're interspersed with a close exam of the era’s strongest djs, the venues within which they performed, and the documents they enjoyed to spin—as good because the labels, musicians, vocalists, manufacturers, remixers, occasion promoters, reporters, and dance crowds that fueled dance music’s tireless engine.
Love Saves the Day comprises fabric from over 300 unique interviews with the scene's so much influential avid gamers, together with David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl younger. It accommodates greater than twenty distinctive dj discographies—listing the favourite documents of an important spinners of the disco decade—and a extra basic discography cataloging a few 600 releases. Love Saves the Day additionally incorporates a special choice of greater than seventy infrequent photos.
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