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<div><i style="font-size: 12px;">Apologies for cross posting</i></div>
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<div><i><font size="3">Context</font></i></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Toija Cinque and I are about to embark on an empirical study of Bowie fans: It begins with this launch questionnaire and then will be followed by focus groups and interviews in five key locations (New York,
London, Berlin, Tokyo, Amsterdam (aca-fan workshop), and Melbourne (focused specifically on migrants), all to take place this year. It is for a monograph we are writing, built around how fans make sense and meaning of Bowie, connecting it to identity politics,
memory and memorabilia, nostalgia, difference, and belonging and desire. His recent death will now also be a key strand in its architecture. We should note that toija and I are both life-long Bowie fans and this will be part of the journey of the research.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Here is the link to the questionnaire: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/dkxspBHoc2" style="color: purple;">http://goo.gl/forms/dkxspBHoc2</a></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Would you be kind enough to distribute the link to any of your networks, folk you think might be keen to take part? Greatly appreciated.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">Brief</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Turn to Face the Strange: the Fandom of David Bowie</i></div>
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<h1 class="ss-form-title" dir="ltr"><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Has his music, films, shows, artwork, or fashion had an impact on your identity?</font></h1>
<h1 class="ss-form-title" dir="ltr"><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Is there something about the star image of David Bowie that maintains its hold on your imagination and sense of being in the world?</font></h1>
<h1 class="ss-form-title" dir="ltr"><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Did you dress or ‘perform’ like David Bowie?</font></h1>
<h1 class="ss-form-title" dir="ltr"><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Has his music, films, shows, artwork, or fashion had an impact on your identity?</font></h1>
<h1 class="ss-form-title" dir="ltr"><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Is there something about the star image of David Bowie that maintains its hold on your imagination and sense of being in the world?</font></h1>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you</div>
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<div><i><font color="#1f497d">Too soon</font></i></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Sean and Toija</div>
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