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

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Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK)

Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK), Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK), Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama University of London UK) , Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds UK)

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Methuen Drama
28 July 2022

Theatre Studies; Individual actors & performers; Other performing arts

Series: Methuen Drama Engage

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.

Edited by: Mark Edward (Edge Hill University UK), Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK), Stephen Farrier (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama University of London UK), Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds UK)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781350198517
ISBN 10: 135019851X
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 July 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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’.

Reviews for Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

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. * Rachel Hann, Northumbria University, UK * 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. * Emma Rees, University of Chester, UK *