It Feels Like Yesterday: Drag, Nostalgia, and Queer Affective History in <i>The Vaudevillians</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
, tells the story of Kitty Witless and Dr. Dan von Dandy, a vaudeville duo whose career was cut short in the 1920s, when they were caught in an avalanche and frozen alive. The conceit of the show is that, during their 90-year hiatus, generations of performers pilfered their songbook and passed them off as their own. Now, they have thawed out and are back to reclaim their intellectual property. In this article, I argue that Kitty and Dan's quest to reclaim queer coded music under the banner of a single queer authorship gives shape and form to the tradition of queer coding, while also creating an affective history and queer origin myth that exposes the queer temporal ethos of nostalgic drag performance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".