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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1

Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1

Edward, Mark
Farrier, Stephen
Taylor-Batty, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Methuen Drama Engage

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ISBN10: 1350082945
ISBN13: 9781350082946
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Mar 19 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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;

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