[78-L] Questions concerning gender and the sale of recordings

[David Lennick]

I'd be curious to know where this information came from..weren't records 
pitched by salesMEN 110 percent of the time? Are you talking about sales direct 
to retail customers or to store purchasers? Women might demonstrate sheet music 
but I'd be surprised if they accounted for many record sales.

dl

On 7/5/2011 7:28 PM, Eric Byron wrote:
>> From what I understand, it was primarily saleswomen who pitched early sound recordings (before 1929) to mostly female customers. Does anybody know whether this kind of exchange also occurred in the sale of humorous sketches made by and for immigrants?  I have the same question for the recordings that played on the stereotypical antics of ethnic, racial and country people and were marketed to the general American public.
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