12 May
2013
12 May
'13
12:59 p.m.
Maia:
What do you mean by "intersections of gender, sexuality, flirtiness, role-swapping,
skirt wearing, age, use of contra network as a social base,
use of contra network to find romantic/sexual partners" ?
How can you make or evaluate any meaningful findings about "contra networks"
without a comparison to other social networks, dance or othrwise ?
Will your use of the "g" word, " god," predispose bias into whatever
findings you eventually make ?
Once you start saying things to dancers, such as "hey, why don'tyou split up and
pair off m/f?" any findings become dubious
By considering your self a young hip flashy dancer (whatever that means) will make your
doing any objective study difficult.
If you have a serious interest in social networks, you should look at the free on-line
class currently being offered by Coursera:
https://www.coursera.org/course/networksonline
The course is 2/3 over, but you still can register to study all the course materials
Michael Fuerst
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From: Maia McCormick <maia.mcc(a)gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Academia?
2013/5/11 Aahz Maruch <aahz(a)pobox.com>
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On Sat, May 11, 2013, Maia McCormick wrote:
That's a really good point. I mean, one way would be to focus my study only
on people who self-identify as being "in" the contra community... but, how
would you suggest I go about finding people on the fringes? I feel like my
sample size will be kind of biased by who I'm friendly with, which is
pretty much the quote unquote 'young hip flashy' dancers (who tend to be
super comfortable switching roles, largely queer, considerably poly and
sexually liberal, etc.). I also want to find the people who consider
themselves "contra community" but feel uncomfortable dancing switch, or
might look at a male-male and female-female couple and say "hey, why don't
you split up and pair off m/f?"
That's exactly it, though! The variations of expressions of self-identity
and sexuality within different subsets of contra. Like, I'm really
interested to look at intersections of gender, sexuality, flirtiness,
role-swapping, skirt wearing, age, use of contra network as a social
base,
use of contra network to find romantic/sexual
partners... oh my god,
there's so much to explore!
One thing to be careful of, by way of personal example: primarily because
of my hearing impairment but also because I have a lot of trouble staying
up late, I tend to think of myself as "of" but not "in" the contra
dance
community. So you likely will need to put in extra effort if you want to
find people who are not part of the core communities (i.e on the fringes,
however you measure that). Alternate
title: How Contradance Can Help Maia Pick Up Chicks. xP
Before queer contra dance camp, I would have said that a quarter-century
of contra (and IFD and square) had produced zero romantic effect. Now
I'm not sure. ;->
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