Hey everyone,

a few weeks ago I got a very interesting proposal. Because of my academic work on Prince and the practice of male Prince-famdom, I was offered to write a book, abou male Prince Fans.

The University of Iowa Press will publish the book after reconsideration by the end of 2015.

So I am looking for interview- partners.

If you would like to help to engage the discourse about Prince and his fans,

u should be:

considering yourself as male and Prince-fan for at least 20 years.

I look forward to talk to you about your own purple-history.

Purple Greets

Carla

For all the madness that is.....he's got me hooked. Go Iowa!

Why male Prince fans?

funkymimi said:

Depending on the nature of the book, I would be willing. I am brutally honest in my opinions. I know some around here are either so disgustingly positive that they think Tony M rapping about manure on My Name Is Prince was profound, and others are so crazy negative that they hate every single thing he has done since 1990 or so.

I have pretty much close to unconditional love for his career from 1978-1988, and from 1989-2014 have a lot of love for him...more so in the studio than live, which puts me at odds with a lot who feel he is the greatest ever live, and seem to think his studio work has been awful recently.

I on the other hand, like most of his studio creations, but get sick of live medleys, crowd flunkys shouting at the top of their lungs, etc.

Hello, I've been a Prince fan since 1984... I am 35 years old now and still consider myself a huge Prince fan, Prince-scholar I am not but I am very knowledgable of his music from 1978 until now.

Hit me up!!!

I fit the description so feel free to contact me. I'd much rather do it thru a written chat on Skype or Facebook than on a webcam, though, but if u absolutely need the audio/video then OK it can also be on webcam thru Skype.

.

Peace

Militant said:

Male, been listening to Prince´s music since 1984. Send me an orgnote with details on the project if you like.

Be very happy to. Prince fan for over 25 years and male!

Congratulations on your project! Feel free to send me an orgnote. I'm a fan from 1990 and I write about music, Prince included, from an academic approach, so I'm really interested in your work.

Will the book be better written than the original post?

Militant said:

funkymimi said:

Hey everyone,

a few weeks ago I got a very interesting proposal. Because of my academic work on Prince and the practice of male Prince-famdom, I was offered to write a book, abou male Prince Fans.

The University of Iowa Press will publish the book after reconsideration by the end of 2015.

So I am looking for interview- partners.

If you would like to help to engage the discourse about Prince and his fans,

u should be:

considering yourself as male and Prince-fan for at least 20 years.

I look forward to talk to you about your own purple-history.

Purple Greets

Carla

Hit me up. I've made a documentary about Prince for national UK radio, and my co-producer on it used it as part of his PHD. So I understand the academic angle. I'd definitely be down for an interview.

do you produce docs, interviews, shows about musicians for a living?

Dilan said:

Militant said:

funkymimi said: Hit me up. I've made a documentary about Prince for national UK radio, and my co-producer on it used it as part of his PHD. So I understand the academic angle. I'd definitely be down for an interview.

do you produce docs, interviews, shows about musicians for a living?

No, I'm a professional musician, that's my main thing.

The documentaries, I do on the side. To date I've done one about Tupac for the BBC, and the "25" series for XFM, with 12 episodes each focusing on different albums from 1986. So there was "Parade", there was "The Queen Is Dead" by The Smiths, "Black Celebration" by Depeche Mode, "Master of Puppets" by Metallica, etc.

I pitched a few ideas this year to a couple of companies I know, but no bites. So back to the drawing board, maybe I'll do another one on something next year. I don't mind so much, cos I'm busy with other projects for the next 6 months.

"SonofPrince" my nickname given to me down in Dallas, TX! hee hee Impersonator, play bass and sing like P. Down with pops since 1978. My stuff was so good he had mute me and delete my account on youtube doing his covers.

"Why", I wasn't trying to make money off it, just paying homage. Hit me up!

Fan since 82, feel free to orgnote me.

you're several years too late. most of them have been banned.