From: "Lydia Beilby" <dancethedada AT hotmail.com>
To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [TypicalGirls] (no subject)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:11:00 +0000
F.A.O Andy Comer! I tried to email you, but the address kept bouncing..sorry
this won't be of too much interest to anyone else. Lydia
Dear Andy,
Thanks for getting in touch.To tell you a bit more about what I'm doing, I
am dissecting what I consider the key elements of 'punk'- aesthetics/
lyrics/ sound/ attitude and philosophy and viewing them through a prism of
gender. My project has shaped itself into a kind of 'doccumentary' annotated
with my own thoughts and interpretations! I have interviewed some female
members of the 70's movement, (not nearly as many as I wanted though- they
are proving elusive in scotland!) and these accounts I am using to try and
assemble some idea of what the Punk identity could mean for women. Clearly,
as I'm doing it on such a small scale, I won't suggest my findings are
representative of the population at large and so I suppose my project is
more like a narrative about how punk worked for some women. Aside from this
I'm looking at sex and sexuality (as something both acted out and
interpreted by others), comparing it to the Hippy counterculture (to really
tease out how it was different to other y. cultures) and looking at
prominent figures. Specifically Patti Smith, Nico, Siouxie Sioux and Debbie
Harry (I'm sort of unsure about Debbie, but lots of my interviewees said
they found her inspirational so I will use her), I will also make mention of
other fem fronted bands- raincoats, au pairs, essential logic, slits etc.
Just wiritng this has alerted me to how much there is to cover!
I googled your article, but there was no response. Is it available anywhere?
any chance you could send it to me?
best wishes, Lydia
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