Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- SFAR6
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350082977
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- Methuen Drama
- ISBN
- 9781350082946
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- ‘Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1’, co-edited by Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward (Edge Hill University), is an 85,000-word collection of 14 peer-reviewed chapters and a foreword by playwright Mark Ravenhill. It is the first in a two-volume publication developed over 5 years to highlight the diversity of drag performance as form and to establish drag studies as a research area. In the context of an explosion of the popularity of drag performance since around 2010, this collection articulates, records and evaluates lesser-known drag work and, from that research, identifies new emergent themes. As part of the research for the volume, the co-editors identified lacunae in popular understanding of drag performance that function to obscure practices unaligned with dominant drag forms. The co-editors’ open call for submissions, therefore, asked for contributions to discuss drag work that preserves, articulates and argues for the importance of local practices obscured when homogeneity is valued. The co-editors consciously curated academic researchers’ voices alongside those of performer-researchers, and the collection starts from a critique of mainstream practices and moves to look at specific works, genres and contexts in drag practice. It engages with pressing issues in the practice of drag, such as trans politics, race and international practice, and is purposefully aimed at a wide audience, written in a tone that encourages community. Contributions authored by Farrier include a chapter on ‘bio-queens’ (5,500 words), and a co-authored introductory preface and chapter both articulating the co-editors’ research in the area and laying out the current challenges in drag practice and its analysis (12,250 words). In combination with Volume 2, this collection establishes drag research and practice as a research field aligned with queer and popular performance.
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