Becoming Queen
Voice and Identity in Drag Lip-Sync Performance
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2027
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-2750-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-2750-6 (ISBN)
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Exploring the academically uncharted domain of drag lip-sync performance through ethnographic research with five London-based drag queens, Becoming Queen theorizes lip-syncing both as a unique performative medium and as a mode of self-construction for the performing queen.
Popularly reviled and publicly ridiculed, lip-syncing is most often associated with inauthenticity, fakery, and deception: why then has it become the ne plus ultra of drag performance? Far from the criticism of stars like Britney and Milli Vanilli, drag queens have elevated lip-syncing to the apex of their craft, praised for their skill, ingenuity, humour, and heart. Becoming Queen asks how this came to pass and interrogates why lip-syncing is such a powerful art form, focusing on the lives and work of five London-based drag performers. This text approaches lip-syncing with two questions in mind: 1) what is lip-syncing? and 2) why are drag queens so drawn to this mode of performance, over any other?
Drawing on voice studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Becoming Queen dissects lip-syncing as a mode of voicing. Jacob Mallinson Bird argues that lip-syncing is, in fact, not dissimilar to many of our more quotidian acts of speech: unveiling lip-syncing reveals more about the strangeness of voice than it does the fallacy of lip-syncing.
Moreover, rather than an alienating act of deception, lip-syncing in such contexts can be a self-affirming performance, one in which the performing queen speaks alongside her own queer idols and pop stars, stitching together multiple bodies and voices into a patchwork of polyvocality. It underscores the stakes of lip-syncing in London’s contemporary drag scene: what lip-syncing is, and why it matters.
Popularly reviled and publicly ridiculed, lip-syncing is most often associated with inauthenticity, fakery, and deception: why then has it become the ne plus ultra of drag performance? Far from the criticism of stars like Britney and Milli Vanilli, drag queens have elevated lip-syncing to the apex of their craft, praised for their skill, ingenuity, humour, and heart. Becoming Queen asks how this came to pass and interrogates why lip-syncing is such a powerful art form, focusing on the lives and work of five London-based drag performers. This text approaches lip-syncing with two questions in mind: 1) what is lip-syncing? and 2) why are drag queens so drawn to this mode of performance, over any other?
Drawing on voice studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Becoming Queen dissects lip-syncing as a mode of voicing. Jacob Mallinson Bird argues that lip-syncing is, in fact, not dissimilar to many of our more quotidian acts of speech: unveiling lip-syncing reveals more about the strangeness of voice than it does the fallacy of lip-syncing.
Moreover, rather than an alienating act of deception, lip-syncing in such contexts can be a self-affirming performance, one in which the performing queen speaks alongside her own queer idols and pop stars, stitching together multiple bodies and voices into a patchwork of polyvocality. It underscores the stakes of lip-syncing in London’s contemporary drag scene: what lip-syncing is, and why it matters.
Jacob Mallinson Bird is Lecturer in Music at The Queen’s, St. Catherine’s and Somerville Colleges, Oxford University, UK, an Organising Tutor, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and a performing drag queen.
Acknowledgements
Part 1: The Silent Voice
1. The Silent Voice
2. The Silent Scream
Part 2: The Imaginary Voice
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. Constructing a Composite Voice
Part 3: The Material Voice
5. Haptic Aurality
6. The Cyborg Queen
Part 4: The Queer Voice
7. Voicing Queerness
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2027 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-2750-6 / 9798765127506 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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