Tim Lawrence is a Reader in Music Culture in the School of Arts and Digital Industries in the University of East London, where he leads the Music Culture and Production degree. He is the author of Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79 (Duke University Press, 2003), and Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92 (Duke University Press, 2009). He is co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research and a founding member of Lucky Cloud Sound System, which has been putting on parties with David Mancuso since June 2003.

In 2009 Tim was awarded a Research Leave grant by the AHRC to work on his third monograph, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor: A History, 1980-83, due for publication in 2013. He has published in a range of journals, including Cultural Studies, Dancecult, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Liminalities, Loops, New Formations, Social Text, Third Text and Yeti. He is a regular contributor to the Wire and has given guest lectures in Berlin, Bologna, Coventry, Faensa, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New Jersey, New York, Oxford, Rome, Salford and Stockholm. For more information, visit www.timlawrence.info.

• Co-director, Centre for Cultural Studies Research
• Programme leader, Music Culture: Theory and Production (BA)
• Link tutor, Lewisham College Music and Production Foundation Degree
• Committee member, REF Working Group

• Music culture, history, theory
• Social dance and the body
• Cultural theory

Music Culture and Production

• Dissertation (Undergraduate Music Culture)
• Sound Systems: Music Genre Across the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Music Meanings
• Music, Sound and the Body

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor: A History (1980-83). North Carolina: Duke University Press, contracted, forthcoming 2013.

"Big Business, Real Estate Determinism, and Dance Culture in New York, 1980-88,” Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 3, 288-306. ISSN: 1524-2226.

“DJing at the Saint and the Forging of a Contingent White Gay Aesthetic, 1980-84,” DanceCult, 3, 1, 2011, 1-24. ISSN: 1947-5403

“Disco and the Queering of the Dance Floor”, Cultural Studies, 25, 2, March 2011, 230-243. ISSN: 09502386.

“Beyond the Hustle: Seventies Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer”, in Julie Malnig (ed.), Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 199-214. ISBN: 978-0-252-07565-0.

Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene (1973-92). North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2009. 416 pages plus 18 pages of front matter. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3198-8.

Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture (1970-79). North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2003. 498 pages plus 21 pages of front matter. ISBN: 0-8223-3185-3. The book received its fifth pressing in August 2008. It was given an Honourable Mention for the 2005 Woody Guthrie Award, made by US Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, to recognise the year’s most distinguished monograph in popular music studies, 18 February 2006.

Connecting with the Cosmic: Arthur Russell, Rhizomatic Musicianship, and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92, published as an on-line monograph in Liminalities, 3, 3, October 2007, 1-85, http://liminalities.net/3-3/russell.htm. ISSN: 1557-2935.

“Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology”, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 20, 3, 2008, 276-329.

“’I Want to See All My Friends At Once’: Arthur Russell and the Queering of Gay Disco”, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 18, 2, 2006, 145-68. ISSN: 154-2226.

“In Defence of Disco (Again)”, New Formations, 58, Summer 2006, 128-46. ISBN: 190500 7 43 4.

“Aids, the Problem of Representation, and Plurality in Derek Jarman’s Blue”, Social Text, 52-53, Fall/Winter 1997.

“Edward Said, Late Style and the Aesthetic of Exile”, Third Text, 38, Spring 1997, 15-24.

Selected Journalism, Reviews, Commentary and Sleeve Notes

• Review of “Theo Parrish: Ugly Edits”, Wire, November 2011.

•  Review of “Simon Fisher Turner: Derek Jarman Super 8”, Wire, September 2011.

•  Review of “Junior Boys: It’s All True”, Wire, July 2011.

• Review of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 2, June 2011.

• Review of “Virgo Four: Resurrection”, Wire, April 2011.

•  Review of “K-SHE: Routes Not Roots”, Wire, April 2011.

• “Frankie Knuckles”, “Larry Levan”, and “Arthur Russell” entries for the Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

•  Review of “Arthur’s Landing: Arthur’s Landing”, Wire, March 2011.

• Review of “Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songs”, Wire, March 2011.

•  Review of “Trax 25: Various”, Wire, February 2011.

•  Review of “Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque,” Wire, January 2011.

•  Review of “Philly ReGrooved: Tom Moulton Remixes”, Wire, September 2010.

•  “Epiphanies: Dinosaur L 24 → 24 Music “, Wire, September 2010.

•  “Walter Gibbons: Jungle Music”, Strut, 2010.

• “Anfang Loft” (”The Sonic and Social Legacy of the 1970s”), De:Bug (Germany), July-August 2010, 13, translated into German by Sven von Thuelen.

•  “Review: Wild Combination”, Journal of the Society of American Music, 4, 2, 2010, 271-73.

•  “Disco”, entry in The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, ed. John Shepherd, David Horn and Dave Laing, forthcoming, 2011.

•  “Party Time with David Mancuso and the Loft”, Loops, 2, 2010. An earlier version of this article was commissioned by Placed (Germany), September 2007, and translated into Italian and published in Nero (Italy), 15, February/March 2008.

• “Icons: Arthur Russell”, Attitude, October 2009.

•  “Lucky Cloud Sound System,” i-D, December 2008.

•  “Who’s Not Who In the Downtown Crowd or Don’t Forget About Me”, Yeti, 6, 2008, 90-99.

•  “Roger S: Choice”, Azuli Records, 2007.

•  “By All Means Necessary: Essential Sylvester”, Vibe, December 2006.

•  “Disco: Liberation of the Body”, translated by Francesco WARBEAR Macarone Palmieri, Liberazione (Italy), 18 June 2006.

•  “Discotheque: Haçienda”, Gut-Active Records, 2006.

•  “Kenny Dope: Choice”, Azuli Records, 2006. Also published at www.clubbing-uk.com/kenny_dope_interview.htm, 29 January 2006.

• “The Todd Terry Trilogy: Past, Present & Future”, Ink Records, 2005.

•  “Acid and Experimental Chicago House”, Soul Jazz Records, 2005. Also published on www.djhistory.com, 21 May 2009.

•  “Louie Vega presents Dance Ritual”, R2 Records, 2005.

•  “King of Clubs”, Village Voice, 28 May 2004.

•  “Mixed with Love: The Walter Gibbons Salsoul Anthology”, Suss’d Records, 2004. Also published on www.myspace.com/waltergibbons, 29 July 2009.

•  “Nicky Siano’s Gallery Classics”, Soul Jazz Records, 2004.

•  “Louie Vega: Choice”, Azuli Records, 2004.

•  “My Salsoul: Marshall Jefferson and the Roots of House”, Suss’d Records, 2004.

• Review of “You Better Work!” Underground Dance Music in New York City by Kai Fikentscher, Dance Research Journal, 33, 2, Winter 2001/02.

•  “BBE Records present: Masters at Work: The Tenth Anniversary Collection, Part One (1990-1995)”, BBE Records, 2000.

•  “BBE Records present: Masters at Work: The Tenth Anniversary Collection, Part Two (1996-2000)”, BBE Records, 2000.

•  “David Mancuso presents the Loft”, Nuphonic Records, 1999.

• Member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies since April 2011.
• Member of the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production since September 2009.
• Advisory member of the Dancecult editorial board since December 2008.

Go to http://timlawrence.info/ for more information on Tim Lawrence's writing and teaching