Some theses about women &
Northern Soul
There are some points concerning women and Northern Soul,
which are bothering me:
Why are there so few women
- visiting allnighters
- collecting records
- DJing?
Below I present my own theses about these questions. Please
feel free to send me
your guesses.
1. Why are there so few women visiting
allnighters?
- Women like to go out in groups. These groups prefer to
go to mainstream music events, where they could meet people they
know.
2. Why are there so few women collecting
records?
- For unknown reasons women don't like to be interested
in things nobody of their friends are interested in.
- Record collecting costs a lot of money and time. Neither
money nor time are what most of the women have because
- jobs for women are badly paid
- some women have no own money to spend at all because they
are married
- some women have no time because they are supposed to look
after their children.
3. Why are there so few women DJing?
- For unknown reasons women don't think that beeing a DJ
is something achievable.
- To be a DJ one have to get into an existing DJ-formation.
Women don't want to bother with fighting to get into this cycle.
- Existing DJ-formations won't let women participating because
of chauvinism: Women can't do that. Women shouldn't do that.
- Their boyfriends or husbands don't let them.
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