Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1

Author:   Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) ,  Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK) ,  Prof. Enoch Brater ,  Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350082946


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1


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In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; ‘bio’/faux queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit.

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Author:   Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) ,  Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK) ,  Prof. Enoch Brater ,  Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781350082946


ISBN 10:   1350082945
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Forward by Mark Ravenhill Introduction by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 1: Applying Foundation and Setting The Scene by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 2: ‘Dragging the Mainstream: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Moving Drag Practices Between the USA and the UK’ by Joe Parslow Chapter 3: ‘RACE FOR THE MONEY: The Influence of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City's Drag Culture’ by Kalle Westerling Chapter 4: ‘Hen.faChinoiserie Drag: Masquerading as the Oriental Other’ by Rosa Fong Chapter 5: ‘It’s Always Better Performing with the Troupe’: Space, Place, and Collective Activism’ by Jae Basiliere Chapter 6: ‘Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death in the IDF Disabled Veterans’ Club’ by Raz Weiner Chapter 7: ‘A Transfeminist Critique of Drag Discourses and Performance Styles in Three National Contexts (US, France and UK): from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Bar Wotever’ by Kayte Stokoe Chapter 8: ‘Not a cock in a frock but a Hole story. Holestar and the mark of the bio-queens’ by Stephen Farrier Chapter 9: ‘Destabilisation through Celebration: Drag, Homage, and Challenges to Black Stereotypes in the Practice of Harold Offeh’ by Kieran Sellars Chapter 10: ‘Gender Euphoria: Trans and Non-Binary Identities in Drag’ by Olympia Bukkakis Chapter 11: ‘The Tranimal: Throwing Gender out of Drag?’ by Nick Cherryman Chapter 12: ‘Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education’ by Mark Edward Chapter 13: ‘Drag publique: the spectacle of queerness, queer placelessness and the emaciated spectator’ by Allan Taylor Chapter 14: ‘""Blessed is the fruit"" Drag Performance, Birthing, and Religious Identity’ by Chris Greenough & Nina Kane Notes Bibliography Index"

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A necessary, nuanced and well heeled step in understanding the scope, diversity and impact of our art. * Cheddar Gorgeous *


Author Information

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’.

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