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- From: "Lani Smith" <LSmith AT minlib.net>
- To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [TypicalGirls] female record collectors
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:38:04 -0500
I'm trying write an article on female record/music collectors.
Unfortunately, I feel I need to answer whether or not girls even collect at
all... Then I'd like to answer, or ponder why there seem to be fewer female
collectors.
Check out this quote below from Simon Frith, a music writer that I
had a lot of respect for.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts, or ideas, or would like to
talk about this, on list or off!
Thanks,
Lani
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PSF: You've talked about generalizations of record
collecting habits where girls are 'dupes' and boys are 'cognoscenti.' How do
you find this so?
SF: It's just that there's a very strange thing and
who knows where it lies? In a course that I was doing, it came out about
different peoples' record collections. I found there was a huge difference
when we were talking about it in a social way with boy versus girl or
whatever. One of the few generalizations you can make is that if a boy likes
a record, they'll go out and buy all of them (by an artist). You find that
when boys buy a Bon Jovi record for instance, they have to go out and buy
all the Bon Jovi records, whereas girls may have two. And the boys are very
contemptuous of girls, thinking that they're not serious listeners. And that
just kind of struck me through a lot of anecdotal experience- just to hear
how girls listen to music, that they're not collectors like boys are. And
that's something with a very long history and that goes across any number of
cultures too. Being collectors and cognoscenti seems to be a very masculine
attribute. How you actually explain that, I absolutely have no idea- what
sort of cultural or psychology things are at play and such.
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[TypicalGirls] Fw: [danceterianyc] Big Brother is watching you again,
Hilary Jaeger, 01/21/2006
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[TypicalGirls] new member intro,
robin dunn, 01/24/2006
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[TypicalGirls] female record collectors,
Lani Smith, 01/24/2006
- Re: [TypicalGirls] female record collectors, robin dunn, 01/24/2006
- Re: [TypicalGirls] female record collectors (p.s.), robin dunn, 01/24/2006
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[TypicalGirls] female record collectors,
Lani Smith, 01/24/2006
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[TypicalGirls] new member intro,
robin dunn, 01/24/2006
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