love saves the day soundtrack the page

tim lawrencelove saves the day

a history of american dance music culture, 1970–79

the argument

in the order he names them

Every record the book’s own discography lists. In the order the story names them. Each one carries the sentence that puts it in the argument, set exactly as printed.

532records
469singles & cuts
63albums
325artists
1959–1984years
729appearances
10chapters
the record

contents

  1. 01beginningsHouse parties and discotheques0records
  2. 02consolidationParty pariahs and the path to permanent revolution23records
  3. 03pollinationThe rise of the downtown party network32records
  4. 04recognitionThe crystallization of a sound85records
  5. 05visibilityThe message of love and the disco mix47records
  6. 06expansionRecord pools, music labels, new clubs44records
  7. 07prominenceForums, formats, franchises139records
  8. 08ascendancyEurodisco, midtown, downtown, out-of-town71records
  9. 09dominanceDisco takes over117records
  10. 10turbulenceBacklash and survival171records

532 of the discography’s 590 entries are named inside a numbered chapter. The remaining 34 appear only in the introduction, the epilogue or the notes, or under a form of words the chapters do not use — a remix credit, a parenthetical the running text drops.

The chapters follow the book: where Lawrence prints a club’s select discography, that running order is the order here, and a record on two of a chapter’s lists appears in both — which is why there are more appearances than records.