Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-08294-6 (ISBN)
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.
Mark Edward is a pracademic and a category dodger. His performance work in live art, contemporary dance performance, theatre, drag and post-modern choreography are often rooted in political and social narratives such as fat body shaming, age(eing) invisibility, homophobia, toxic and bruised masculinity, disability, mental health, class and him being neurodivergent as a ADHDancer and ADHDrag. He has featured in Attitude magazine, Scene magazine and GT magazine, and been interviewed for several BBC radio and TV documentaries, focusing on drag histories and activism, with drag performers Choriza May, Mutha Tucka and Miss Dixie Swallows. He has also featured in ‘The History of Drag’ documentary, alongside Boy George, lanah.p and Ginny Lemon. His research into drag cultures provided the content for the three-part BBC ‘Drag Herstories’ series. He is the author of the book ‘Mesearch and the Performing Body’ (Palgrave), and co-editor (alongside Professor Stephen Farrier) of the books ‘Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene vol 1’, ‘Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories; Drag in a Changing Scene vol 2’ and ‘Drag: the Basics’ (Routledge) with Professor Chris Greenough. He is the writer, and producer of the acclaimed immersive installation work ‘Council House Movie Star’ and the the first person to bring practical drag studies into higher education. He has performed with and worked for a range of arts organisations and artists including Rambert Dance, Senza Tempo Dance Theatre, Penny Arcade in her pivotal work ‘Bad Reputation’ and with the Australian performance activist Jeremy Goldstein in his ‘Truth to Power Cafè’. 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’.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.02.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-08294-5 / 1350082945 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-08294-6 / 9781350082946 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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