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- From: an7844@anon.penet.fi
- Subject: Zines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225534.20846@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:16:16 GMT
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- bobc@pyramid.unr.edu (Bob Conrad) writes:
-
- > i'm a fucking purist, i encourage everybody else to try
- > to keep their work and art pure too. the other thing about all this zine
- > talk that's pissing me off is evident in an announcement i got in the mail
- > for an upcoming zine show. it said "fanzines=artzines, homozines, litzines,
- > femzines, musiczines, personalzines, punkzines, comiczines" or something
- > to that effect. to read it you'd get the impression on "punkzines" are
- > some little bastard faction of fanzines, when in reality fanzines have been
- > nurtured and hyped almost exclusively by the punk scene for the last
- > 15 years! sure, they word "fanzine" originally came from sci-fi rags
- > in the early 70s but it's been punk culture that kept the word alive
- > and then pushed it to its presnt possibilities
-
- I think you're taking things too seriously. After all no-one could
- really believe that:
-
- > in reality fanzines have been
- > nurtured and hyped almost exclusively by the punk scene for the last
- > 15 years!
-
- and
-
- > it's been punk culture that kept the word alive
- > and then pushed it to its presnt possibilities
-
- unless they only ever actually read punk zines.
-
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