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Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey

Book information

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0472071963, 9780472071968
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4327897 bytes)
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Pages
296\296
Time added
2016-11-20 22:42:15
Dance;Ballet;Ballroom;Choreography;Classical;Folk;

Description

Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.

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