Caption: "Dorchester, Mass- [sic] One would never guess that the 'young lady' in the photo is William L. Prince, who is one of the principals in the show, 'The Boob', to be given by the Dorchester Boys' High School. It is a laugh provoking comedy and was written by a teacher in the school." [Subject is seated in an office chair near an electric fan.]
The Shamrock Bar : Photographs and Interviews by Carol Burch-Brown, 1997-2003
It's Reigning Queens in Appalachia
Donor:
Burch-Brown, Carol
Subject:
Kilkelly, Ann
Shamrock Bar (Bluefield, W.Va.)
Physical description:
Black-and-white photoprints: Silver gelatin on fiber-base paper
1 cu. ft. : 2 boxes: 200 photoprints, 26 audio CDs, and 1 document CD
Type:
Interviews
Collection descriptions
Oral history
Photographs
Compact discs
Transcripts
Digital images
Place:
Appalachian Region
Bluefield (W.Va.)
West Virginia
Date:
1997
1997-2003
1990-2000
1980-2000
20th century
Topic:
Transvestites
Lesbian and gay experience
Transvestism
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Gay artists
Working class
Homosexuality
Bisexuality
Local number:
2004.3063 (NMAH Acc.)
Notes:
During its heyday, the Shamrock Bar in Bluefield, West Virginia was a gathering place for gays and lesbians. The photographer reported in March 2003, before donating this collection, that Miss Helen Compton, proprietor of the Shamrock, had died and the establishment had been closed
Carol Burch-Brown is Professor of Art and Humanities at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, and is a photographer, painter, and musician. Photographer and co-author with David Rigsbee, Trailers, University Press of Virginia, 1996
Summary:
Carol Burch-Brown's photographs (200 photoprints, mostly silver gelatin, but including a few digital prints), copies of tape-recorded interviews (31, on 26 compact discs), and transcripts of interviews (3 volumes plus a compact disc containing Word files) made at the Shamrock Bar, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1997-2000 (photoprints made in 2003), documenting a working class "gay" bar. Photographs include "drag" performances and other activities at the bar. A colleague of the photographer, Ann Kilkelly, is shown in costume in some of the photographs. The project was later entitled "It's Reigning Queens in Appalachia" by the photographer
Cite as:
The Shamrock Bar: Photographs and Interviews by Carol Burch-Brown, 1997-2003, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist
Title supplied by Archives staff (unpublished work) -- archival collection
Summary:
Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: scenes in the village marketplace; a large circular gathering of men by the river to witness and participate in village wrestling matches; individual wrestling matches: these begin with contestants circling inside the enclosed gathering, shaking hands, and then sparring for a tie-up; wrestlers grab each others clothing much in the fashion of judo; the objective is apparently to throw one's opponent to his back in a clean move. When this occurs a supporter rushes out and hoists the victorious competitor upon this back, running with him around the circle. Scenes of six or seven matches and also scenes of festivities featuring dance by man dressed in woman's garb; music played on string harp-like instrument; socializing among men and boys
Illustrations, color plates C-11 to C-14 (following page 166), maps
Contents:
Historical, geographical, cultural, and social background of the Dagbamba of Ghana -- Baamaaya recreational dance-drumming ceremony -- Bla religious dance-drumming ceremony -- Jera religious dance-drumming ceremony -- Tera women's recreational dance-drumming ceremony
J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual / edited by Jane Poyner
Author:
Poyner, Jane
Subject:
Coetzee, J. M. 1940- Criticism and interpretation
Physical description:
vii, 246 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
2006
C2006
20th century
Topic:
Politics and literature--History
Animal rights
In literature
Contents:
Introduction / Jane Poyner -- The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J.M. Coetzee and the public sphere / David Attwell -- The writer, the critic, and the censor : J.M. Coetzee and the question of literature / Peter D. McDonald -- Against allegory : 'Waiting for the barbarians,' 'Life & times of Michael K,' and the question of literary reading / Derek Attridge -- Death and the space of the response to the other in J.M. Coetzee's 'The master of Petersburg' / Michael Marais -- A belief in frogs : J.M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction / Dominic Head -- J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination / Sam Durrant -- Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' / Elleke Boehmer -- Going to the dogs : humanity in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace,' 'The lives of animals,' and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Rosemary Jolly -- What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men / Michael Bell -- A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J.M. Coetzee's 'The life of animals' / Laura Wright -- Textual transvestism : the female voices of J.M. Coetzee / Lucy Graham
Introduction -- 1. Male and female shamans -- The making of a shaman -- Transvestism -- Androgynous male and female shamans -- Dragonfly shamans -- Secret language -- Visualization of one's skeleton -- Yakut shamans -- Shamanic performances -- Hungarian shamans -- Chinese shamanesses -- Korean shamanism -- Evenki shamaness -- Lapp shamanism -- Shamans and smiths -- 2. Trance, ecstasy and possession -- The ecstatic flight or journey -- Descent to the underworld -- Ecstatic religions -- Forms of possession -- 3. Shamans' paraphernalia -- Drum decorations -- Ket drum-making ceremony -- Lapp, Sāmi and Tatar drums -- Mirrors -- Shaman's staff -- 4. Deities and spirits -- Vairgit spirits -- Tailagan ceremony -- Koryak spirits -- Samoyed deity -- Vogul deities and Khanty and Mansi spirits -- Shadow spirits -- Good and bod spirits -- Yakut and Enet deities -- Important female spirit -- Khanty goddess, Vut-imi -- Animal sacrifices -- Chukchi 'prayer paddle' and Koryak whale festival -- Tungus spirits and animals -- Werewolves -- Mongolian spirits -- Womb goddess in the sky -- 5. The shaman's costume -- Shaman's skeleton -- Metal ornaments -- Bird and animal images -- A Tuva shamaness -- Headgear -- A Yukaghir and Chulym shaman -- 6. Divination and healing -- Divination -- Healing -- 7. Soul, ancestor cults and death -- Soul -- Ainu underworld -- Ancestor cults -- Death and funeral rites -- Death caused by women -- 8. Images and idols -- 9. Were-animals
