{"id":191,"date":"2009-05-15T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/05\/what_do_women_want_of_jazz_clu\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:34:05","slug":"what_do_women_want_of_jazz_clu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/05\/what_do_women_want_of_jazz_clu.html","title":{"rendered":"What do women want (of jazz clubs)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t women feel welcome as jazz listeners? My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/05\/lifes_a_pitch_where_are_the_wo.html\">posting<\/a> hit a nerve with Facebook &#8220;friends&#8221; and commentors including ArtsJournal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/05\/walk-right-in-sit-right-down.html\">Mind the Gap<\/a> blog, which takes up the issue of &#8220;comfort when it comes to experiencing art&#8221; and rightly understands I was thinking more about &#8220;psychic comfort&#8221; than anything limited to the physical.<\/p>\n<p>What about it, readers &#8212; how much are you willing to suffer to hear what you want?<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t women feel welcome as jazz listeners? My posting hit a nerve with Facebook &#8220;friends&#8221; and commentors including ArtsJournal&#8217;s Mind the Gap blog, which takes up the issue of &#8220;comfort when it comes to experiencing art&#8221; and rightly understands I was thinking more about &#8220;psychic comfort&#8221; than anything limited to the physical. What about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[271,270,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-art-in-comfort","8":"tag-mind-the-gap","9":"tag-women-in-jazz","10":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/06\/michelle_obama_refutes_jazz_as.html","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Michelle Obama refutes jazz as boys&#8217; club","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"There are \"powerful reasons . . .we ought to consider\" for why musicians and listeners \"tend to be a brotherhood,\" according to a self-described \"middle-aged white male swing-to-bopper.\" He's identifying, not justifying . . .Then the First Lady upsets the paradigm. 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