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‘Neither pure love nor imitating capitalism’: Euro WILD and the invention of women’s music distribution in Europe, 1980-1982

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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:09 authored by D-M Withers
Euro Women’s Independent Label Distribution (WILD) was a pan-European network of feminist music distributors active in the early 1980s. They were affiliated to WILD, the US-based women’s music distribution network founded in 1979 to disseminate the growing corpus of Women’s Music emerging from the US Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). This article presents an interpretation of archive materials that document Euro WILD’s activities from the Women’s Revolution Per Minute archive, housed at Women’s Art Library, London. Constrained and enabled by the archive materials on offer, I re-visit some of the practical and political problems the network faced as European distributors of US Women’s Music. Key issues explored include the perception of US cultural imperialism by women based in Europe and the affective politics that circulated trans-nationally between distributors. Finally this article explores how the concept and practice of the Women’s Music Industry changed when women beyond the borders of the US engaged with it.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Feminist Review

ISSN

0141-7789

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Issue

1

Volume

120

Page range

85-100

Department affiliated with

  • Music Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-05-04

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-11-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-05-04

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