Series: mdwPress

How can diverse musical interactions be productively used to promote inter- and transcultural communication, support human thriving and flourishing, empower marginalised social groups, or make society as a whole more sustainable, just, and inclusive? Bringing together perspectives from research and practice, this edited volume explores how music mediation as a distinct artisticeducational practice can foster social cohesion, enable dialogue, and...

In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annuß reformulates queer theorisations of drag, exploring the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. Taking up the ambivalence of "dirty" performance modes spanning drag and carnival to propaganda, she extends readings of gender bending by incorporating perspectives on blackface and "racialised drag." She thereby explores violent, locally specific...

Facing Drag brings together international experts from cultural studies—including history, media, theatre, dance, and performance studies—to explore how gender, race, and ethnicity are impersonated across time and cultures. Drawing on diverse case studies, the volume examines performative acts of crossing, appropriation, and re-signification, foregrounding their political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. Expanding the concept of drag beyond gender bending, it investigates...