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Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2 de Mark Edward

Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2: Methuen Drama Engage

Editat de Mark Edward, Stephen Farrier
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2022
Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory.The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA, UK and Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados, this book allows the reader to engage with a range of archival research including camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag; the connections between drag king and queen history; queering pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican drag performers and historical film.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350198517
ISBN-10: 135019851X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 15 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Methuen Drama Engage

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The book works against the tide of thinking about drag as the embodiment of gender theory and reorients it toward performance. Together with the companion volume, Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers, it offers an important investigation into the interdisciplinary nature and history of drag

Notă biografică

Mark Edward is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include Mesearch and the Performing Body (2018). Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her work Bad Reputation (2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein's Truth to Power Café (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation Council House Movie Star (2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force.Stephen Farrier is Reader in Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. With Alyson Campbell he has coedited Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance named the 'Gender and Sexuality Issue'.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsForeword by Penny ArcadePreface Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier 1. Dragging up the Past - Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier2. 'Once upon a time, there was a tavern': metadrag and other uses of the past at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - Ben Walters3. Camp and Drag in the Mainstream: A Critical Study of the Phenomenon of Drag performance in the Northern British Fun Pubs, 1973-1993 - Chris D'Dray 4. Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality, and Censorship in Post-War Britain - Jacob Bloomfield5. Kinging the Stage: Male impersonators and drag kings, exploring shared historical narratives - Stephen Farrier6. A Kiss that Breaks the Spell: Japanese "Drag Kings" and the Homosocial Culture of the Takarazuka Revue - Isabelle coy-dibley7. Camp can be such a drag: Approaches to understanding camp and drag - Simon Dodi8. Vonni Diva: Showgirl - Rosslyn Prosser9. FagHag Drag: Penny Arcade's Archive of Otherness - Joseph Mercier with Penny Arcade10. Nobody's Trash: Holly Woodlawn's Puerto Rican Drag and the Subversion of Authorship - Gabriel Mayora11. Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination - Nando Messias12. Mother Sally and The Fig Leaf: Re/Productions of A Carnival Character in Barbados - Nick Ishmael-Perkins13. The Buttcracker: Dragging Ballet into Queer Places - Mark Edward and Helen Newall14. Oh wow! He's queer! Queering Panto in Belfast: An Interview with Ross Anderson-Doherty - Alyson Campbell and Trish McTighe15. Wicked Queens of Pantoland - Simon SladenIndex

Recenzii

Drag research has arrived. This volume by Edward and Farrier is a triumphant celebration of the critical, creative and speculative potentials of drag. The authors confidently embrace the complexities of drag and offer an affirmative map of its many forms, politics, and contexts. Future drag scholarship will be indebted to the provocations and case studies captured within these pages: from the 'sequin method' for historiography to queering panto. I am feeling the fantasy.
From its playful title right through to its pantomimic concluding chapter, Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories is an exuberant, informed romp through the history of this most transgressive, protean, and wonderfully queer art form. Editors Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier have done a fabulous job in bringing together a panoply of academics, commentators, practitioners, and activists to cast some important light onto drag's complex and fascinating past.
This volume of essays makes a valuable and, yes, entertaining contribution to drag histories and herstories (the hairstories are in there, too), bringing a range of perspectives on performance cultures and performers that are illuminating. The sense of fun, passion and energy of so many performers and performance cultures are celebrated, documented and subjected to valuable critique here.