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Post by chrissh on Mar 17, 2013 11:22:16 GMT -5
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Post by Infinite Ego on Mar 17, 2013 15:51:57 GMT -5
fascinating. sadly, few women today make guitars either. I wonder how many of those women stayed on after the war (I bet not many) and if any of them made guitars in the years after?
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Post by chrissh on Mar 17, 2013 21:15:59 GMT -5
Yeah, who knows. Guitars became a popular symbol of male aspiration during the post war years of "barefoot and pregnant" ideology, and women's labor has traditionally been patronized or uncredited. Second wave feminism redefined those values somewhat, and still we only hear about the occasional Abigail Ybarra or Maricela Juarez in supportive roles, or Linda Manzer as a luthier.
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Post by chrissh on Mar 24, 2013 11:45:28 GMT -5
Someone I know saw this thread and was unhappy; To be clear: I was being critical of cultural conditions that were unsupportive of poor and working class women in the the middle of the 20th century, even though we got our beloved electric guitars in the process. Culture and gender are of course much more complex than glib polemic comments, especially several decades after the fact.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Mar 24, 2013 16:43:48 GMT -5
Well, geez, Chris, didn't you know this is the era of ensured thread happiness? WTF were you thinking?
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Post by chrissh on Mar 24, 2013 19:08:05 GMT -5
Can the era bear such high controversy?
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Post by Infinite Ego on Mar 24, 2013 20:34:51 GMT -5
Can the era bear such high controversy? probably not ;D |
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Post by aliensporebomb on Mar 25, 2013 11:01:46 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the short lived trend from about two years ago where people were posting videos of their grandmothers playing Chet Atkins tunes on Music Man Van Halen guitars thru 5150 stacks clean? There were like 3-4 videos in a short period and it was like the grandkids mentioned they played and then their grandmothers went "oh yeah, we used to play too" and they would tear it up old school.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Mar 25, 2013 12:11:11 GMT -5
it was so hot back then
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