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

[Eric Byron]

Hello,

I'm am talking about sales direct to retail customers and the customers 
themselves.  Most of the information comes from "The Gendered Phonograph: 
Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930" in Recorded Music in American Life: 
The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 by William Howland Kenney.

Eric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Questions concerning gender and the sale of recordings


> 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
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> 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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>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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