Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2
- 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
- SFAR7
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350104396
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- ISBN
- 9781350104396
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2021
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The volume was scheduled for publication on 24 December 2020. In the late stages of the preparation of the volume, one of the co-editors was being tested for COVID-related symptoms. This, combined with the health condition of one of the co-editors that significantly impacts his energy levels, meant that the publication of the book was briefly delayed. The rescheduled publication date is 14 January 2021; the volume was delayed only two weeks into 2021. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has a letter from the publisher confirming the COVID-related delay should it be required.
- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2’ is co-edited by Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward (Edge Hill University) and comprises an 85,000-word collection of 15 peer-reviewed chapters and a foreword by queer underground performance pioneer, Penny Arcade. The second in a two-volume publication developed over 5 years, it was conceived by both editors to highlight the diversity of drag performance as form, locating drag studies as an emergent research area. Positioned by the editors as a companion publication to Volume 1, the essays were commissioned to describe, record and critique specific historical drag practices. In the research for the volume, the co-editors noted the difficulty of recording historic drag performance, in part because drag comprises a wide set of practices, and also that such practices rely on tropes of gender and identity themselves socially produced and not trans-historical. As such, what counts as drag in one historical context, might not in another. This central tension of the work is conceived through a ‘sequin method’, devised by the co-editors, which develops strategies for ‘digging out’ lesser-known historical work and performance practice, recognising drag histories’ partial and incomplete nature. The co-editors’ curation of the chapters makes space for academic researchers and performer-researchers, engaging with discourses around historical connectedness and drag in history. The editors augment connections between queer identities and historical performance practices without assuming a trans-historical attitude to identity. Contributions authored by Farrier include a 6,300-word chapter connecting drag kings and 19th-century male impersonation, and a co-authored 9,000-word introductory preface and chapter articulating the editors’ research into marking out the field of drag studies. Farrier’s work in this volume connects this burgeoning research area to discourses of performance history in order to emphasise connectedness with extant historical forms without erasing the specific sensitivities studying drag requires.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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