Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

["Dina Hornreich" <dina8 AT cox.net>]

I once started a typical girls discussion group on orkut -- a friendster-esque type venture -- but the list has always been the main pipeline for discussions. I guess I could start one on myspace or something. I don't really see the need for it, though. I'm quite happy with how the list has been running over the years (started in July 1999) as listserv proper.

 

Thanks for your interest.

 

-Dina (list creator and moderator)

 

Dina Hornreich
dina8{at}cox{dot}net
http://home.earthlink.net/~dinahornreich

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From: Susan Van Pelt

To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:55 AM

Subject: [TypicalGirls] internet music discussion boards, etc., etc.

Longtime reader, first-time poster.  Hi!

Prompted obliquely & in part by the recent discussion of female record collectors:  can anyone here recommend (a) good internet music discussion board(s), ideally with substantial content related to that of this mailing list?  As an internet geek and mildly obsessive punk / post-punk fetishist, I would enjoy conversing with same in a more immediate way than is possible with mailing lists. 

As for the boards I'm currently aware of, ILM is mostly, um, not my cup of tea, for lots of reasons (no disrespect to anyone on this list, of course).  Then there's the Electrical Audio forum, operated under the aegis of Steve Albini's studio -- though the posting population is probably 99% male and overt / ludicrous sexism is far from rare, the overall tone is far less smug & gatekeeperish than on ILM -- perhaps not coincidentally, the posters there seem to be mostly fans and musicians rather than journalists and critics -- and the content is often of interest to me, but the energy required for mandatory idiotic-bullshit filtering makes it a less than enjoyable milieu altogether.  A message board exists for the present-day punk scene in my city, but my interest in local stuff is not that strong.

Other suggestions?  I ask not just for myself, but for the hypothetical legion of female fans facing the same dearth of cyber-dialogue.

Has there ever been any thought or talk of a Typical Girls message board? 

Cheers,
Susan

P.S.  For those who were kind enough to answer my e-mail last fall, I of course got unforeseeably, hellishly busy w/ job stuff so there will be no book from me on Entertainment! in the foreseeable future -- I didn't even meet the proposal deadline. :( Somebody else ought to step up on that if they have the time / obsessiveness / energy / ability.

P.P.S.  Just in case people haven't seen it, would like to, & didn't know about this, the video for this list's namesake, and much other awesomeness besides, is now online for free at Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search=%22slits%22&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

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