Ask A Sheroes Stan: Jeanette Lynes Finally Answers Super Important Dusty Springfield Q’s

There months ago, we were proud to launch our Sheroes Stan residency, a program that connects aca-fan knowledge and wisdom to the vastly growing motley crew of international and local artists that are regularly involved with Sheroes each month.

For Sheroes #11: Dusty Springfield, we were so glad to invite the award-winning author Jeanette Lynes.

Jeanette coordinates the MFA writing program at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems, aaaand has had a novel shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize. (But we’ll confess that we first found out about her through the equally prestigious Dusty Springfield fansite.)

Click below for the full interview, in which Lynes illuminates on why la Dust’s a relevant Pride icon, her life as a “camp elegy” & more. (If you’re in Toronto tonight, you can catch Jeanette read at Sheroes #11 and ask her any Q’s we didn’t get answered!)

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The “tragic lesbian” storyline is one that I find particularly tedious. Another example of a simplistic reading is the often-repeated line that Dusty was “influenced by black music.” Of course she was, but it begs the question, well, what does that mean, “black” music? What about Dusty’s relationship to “white” music then? I wanted to dig beneath the surface of notions like these because I really think they affect the way we hear the music.

— The title of Annie Randall’s book I mentioned last week is:
Dusty: Queen of the Postmods. It’s an academic book but don’t hold
that against it.

(Source: dustyspringfield.org.uk)

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Meet our third “Sheroes Stan”, Jeanette Lynes.

Earlier this year, we were proud to launch our Sheroes Stan residency, a program that connects aca-fan knowledge and wisdom to the vastly growing ragtag crew of international and local artists that are regularly involved with Sheroes each month.

Starting next week, this genuine #1 Dustologist will be answering any Dusty Springfield questions you might have in the lead up to Sheroes #11: Dusty Springfield. (In fact, she’s even written an amazing collection of poetry inspired by Dusty!)

Consider her a far more resourceful Yahoo Answers humanoid at your disposal for anything-related to our Queen of the Postmods.

Got any burning q’s? Ask ‘em here. (Or simply join our Facebook group for Jeanette’s Dust-ness.)

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The Producer’s Poem…she had an obscure avant-garde genius as her goal.―Tom Dowd
If he had hairhe’d tear it out.Hour nine, she recordsthe same syllable again,again, again. She makes her artone syllable at a time and ithurts to watch. He can’t hear a hairof difference between sounds, it’s one tickof the clock against another.
Copyright © Jeanette Lynes, 2008

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The Producer’s Poem
…she had an obscure avant-garde genius as her goal.
―Tom Dowd

If he had hair
he’d tear it out.
Hour nine, she records
the same syllable again,
again, again. She makes her art
one syllable at a time and it
hurts to watch. He can’t hear a hair
of difference between sounds, it’s one tick
of the clock against another.

Copyright © Jeanette Lynes, 2008

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