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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. 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 *

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

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Penny Arcade

Preface Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier





1. Dragging up the Past - Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier

2. 'Once upon a time, there was a tavern': metadrag and other uses of the past at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - Ben Walters

3. Camp and Drag in the Mainstream: A Critical Study of the Phenomenon of Drag performance in the Northern British Fun Pubs, 1973-1993 - Chris D'Dray

4. Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality, and Censorship in Post-War Britain - Jacob Bloomfield

5. Kinging the Stage: Male impersonators and drag kings, exploring shared historical narratives - Stephen Farrier

6. A Kiss that Breaks the Spell: Japanese "Drag Kings" and the Homosocial Culture of the Takarazuka Revue - Isabelle coy-dibley

7. Camp can be such a drag: Approaches to understanding camp and drag - Simon Dodi

8. Vonni Diva: Showgirl - Rosslyn Prosser

9. FagHag Drag: Penny Arcade's Archive of Otherness - Joseph Mercier with Penny Arcade

10. Nobody's Trash: Holly Woodlawn's Puerto Rican Drag and the Subversion of Authorship - Gabriel Mayora

11. Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination - Nando Messias

12. Mother Sally and The Fig Leaf: Re/Productions of A Carnival Character in Barbados - Nick Ishmael-Perkins

13. The Buttcracker: Dragging Ballet into Queer Places - Mark Edward and Helen Newall

14. Oh wow! He's queer! Queering Panto in Belfast: An Interview with Ross Anderson-Doherty - Alyson Campbell and Trish McTighe

15. Wicked Queens of Pantoland - Simon Sladen



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