{"product_id":"contemporary-drag-practices-and-performers-drag-in-a-changing-scene-volume-1-9781350319196","title":"Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapters 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;\u003cbr\u003eengagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12685960\"\u003eMark Edward\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350319196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350319198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER011020\"\u003eTheater | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER015000\"\u003eComedy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Edward\u003c\/b\u003e is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include \u003ci\u003eMesearch and the Performing Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her work \u003ci\u003eBad Reputation \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein's \u003ci\u003eTruth to Power Café\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation \u003ci\u003eCouncil House Movie Star (\u003c\/i\u003e2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Farrier\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eQueer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The\u003ci\u003e Journal of Applied Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e and Performance named the 'Gender and Sexuality Issue'.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44451626811629,"sku":"9781350319196","price":71.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c16f0082-1077-4abb-a90e-3f3811042d92.jpg?v=1700330063","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/contemporary-drag-practices-and-performers-drag-in-a-changing-scene-volume-1-9781350319196","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}