Cowboys And Indies: The Epic History Of The Record Industry - Plot & Excerpts
PSALMS On the garbage-infested streets of downtown New York, a brand-new species of record man planted a seed. David Mancuso was an ascetic on a crusade to bring people together in dance-party gatherings that as yet hadn’t acquired a name. The history of New York’s dance scene is both complex and hotly disputed. We know for sure that the original discotheque format was, by then, an almost extinct French import from a bygone era. The double-turntable, multicultural disco of the future, drank from a different source: David Mancuso’s memories of his childhood in a Utica orphanage in the late forties and early fifties, where every week the kindhearted Sister Alicia threw parties for the children. They jumped around chasing balloons to the sound of music from records on a little turntable. Without realizing the connection until much later in life, Mancuso as a young man was drawn to rent parties, then popular especially among African Americans. “I would go to the Village, I would go to Harlem, I would go to Staten Island, I would go wherever I heard there was a party going on,”
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