Books
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture,
1970-79, my first book, was published by Duke University Press in 2004. Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92,
my second book, will be published by Duke in the autumn of 2009. I am currently
working on a history of New York club culture in the first half of the 1980s, again for Duke.
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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92 (forthcoming, autumn 2009)
My biography of the downtown musician Arthur Russell has gone into
production with Duke University Press and will be published in the
autumn of 2009. Developed around exhaustive interviews with Russell's
closest collaborators, friends and family, and including eight-seven
photos, many of them rare, Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene
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Love Saves the Day / Japanese Edition
Love
Saves the Day has been translated into Japanese:
＜ガラージ＞＜ロフト＞＜12インチ＞＜ノンストップ・ミックス＞…
現在の隆盛の礎となった、NYを軸とした70年代のDJ/クラブ/レコード業界まわりの史実を、オリジナル・インタビュー、“ダンス・クラシックス”リス
トを通して徹底検証した決定版！DJカルチャー参
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79
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
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Love Saves the Day / Italian Edition
“Love Saves The Day”, uscito in prima edizione nel 2003 per la Duke University Press, e’ un libro secondo noi importante, giunto a colmare una lacuna evidente nella critica musicale e piu’ in genere nella critica del costume. Infatti, sebbene non manchino i libri e le pubblicazioni sugli “anni della disco” - quasi tutti elencati nell’ampia Read more »
[Last updated: 14.12.2005]Back Cover Quotes
"At long last, a candid, detailed, and authoritative look back on one of dance music's most seminal moments in time. This book on the genesis of the movement in 1970s New York will delight anyone, from the researcher wanting some serious unbiased fact-checking all the way to the casual music lover curious for juicy anecdotes. It's about time!" Read more »
[Last updated: 07.06.2005]Reviews of Love Saves the Day
"Tim Lawrence's disco culture tome is one of the sharpest books on dance music to date, striking a balance between you-are-there club descriptions, socioeconomic analysis, and musical critique. The U.K. author conducted over 300 interviews with early DJs like Francis Grasso, label owners like Neil Bogart of Casablanca Records, and journalists (including the Voice's Vince Aletti), for insight into the world he was not a part of, but nevertheless makes vivid." Tricia Romano, Village Voice Read more »
[Last updated: 14.06.2005]Extract from Love Saves the Day
David Mancuso was born into an unhappy family on 20 October 1944. Ten days later he was whisked away and placed into a children's home in Utica where a nun called Sister Alicia looked after him. Mancuso's memory of the period is hazy but he recalls one aspect of the orphanage with absolute clarity: Sister Alicia's party room. "It had balloons, crepe paper, a refrigerator, a piano and a record player with records Read more »
[Last updated: 07.06.2005]Swine interview with Tim Lawrence (July 2005)
Disco has been a much maligned and misunderstood musical genre, what gave you the impetus to write LSD? The initial plan was to write a book that focused on the late eighties and nineties. Then I was introduced to David Mancuso ⎯ who nobody had really heard of at the time ⎯ and he introduced me to this whole world of underground parties that I'd never heard of. Initially I was reluctant to get into the 1970s. Like so many early UK house heads, I just equated disco with cheese... Read more »
[Last updated: 04.10.2005]Keep On interview with Tim Lawrence (December 2003)
Why did you decide to write the book? Well I was going to write a book about 90s dance culture, which is what I was experiencing at the time. I'd started going out dancing in the early 90s and this was the era of the Criminal Justice Bill, a time when dance culture was being criminalized. In the process of researching that book I started to go back to New York and Chicago in the mid-1980s, which supposedly formed the roots of 90s dance culture. The name David Mancuso popped up... Read more »
[Last updated: 07.06.2005]Arthur Russell interview (Blow Up, January 2007)
The
following interview between Daniela Cascella and Tim Lawrence was
conducted on 25 January 2007. It will appear in an article Cascella is
writing for Blow Up (Italy). Tim Lawrence's biography of Arthur Russell
for Duke University Press is due to be
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