Drag Becomes Them: Voices and Identities Beyond the Stage
by Alec MacIntyre




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Alec MacIntyre (PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh). This essay is based on his dissertation, Singing is a Drag: Gender, Voice, and Body in Drag Performance, in which he proposes new theories of the relationships between voice, body, and identity based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork with drag performers in Pittsburgh, PA, and other American cities. In addition to his interests in voice studies and gender studies, Alec works on film sound and popular music in pre-Revolution Cuba.

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