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Publications of Thomas F. DeFrantz    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Perkins, KA; Richards, SL; Craft, RA; De Frantz, TF, The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance (January, 2018), pp. 1-426, Routledge, ISBN 9781138726710 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Black Performance Theory, edited by DeFrantz, TF; Gonzalez, A (April, 2014), pp. 296 pages, Duke University Press, ISBN 0822377012  [abs]
  3. DeFrantz, TF, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture (October, 2011), pp. 1-320, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195301717 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Dancing Many Drums, edited by Defrantz, TF (April, 2002), pp. 384 pages, Univ of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299173135  [abs]

Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books

  1. DeFrantz, TF, Black dance and technologies of wellness, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, vol. 13 no. 2 (January, 2022), pp. 212-213 [doi]
  2. Defrantz, TF, Intermediality and queer African American improvisation: Dianne mcintyre, sounds in motion, Theatre Research International, vol. 46 no. 2 (July, 2021), pp. 115-127 [doi]  [abs]
  3. DeFrantz, TF, The race of contemporary ballet: Interpellations of africanist aesthetics, in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet (January, 2021), pp. 562-580, ISBN 9780190871499 [doi]  [abs]
  4. DeFrantz, TF, The talking, Theater, vol. 50 no. 3 (November, 2020), pp. 63-67 [doi]
  5. DeFrantz, TF, Soundz at the back of my head, Theater, vol. 50 no. 3 (November, 2020), pp. 69-85 [doi]
  6. Defrantz, TF, Training Beyond: ‘Curating the End of the World’ (Part I and Part II) by New York Live ArtsGoogle Arts & Culture, 2020 1, Organized by Reynaldo Anderson, Tiffany E. Barber and Stacey Robinson with the Black Speculative Arts Movement, Performance Research, vol. 25 no. 8 (January, 2020), pp. 176-177 [doi]
  7. Coleman, G; Defrantz, TF, Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies, in We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions (January, 2019), pp. 53-67, ISBN 9783837646016
  8. Defrantz, TF, White privilege, Theater, vol. 48 no. 3 (November, 2018), pp. 23-37, Duke University Press [doi]
  9. DeFrantz, TF; Badejo, P, Forewords (January, 2018), pp. vii-xii, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 9783319703138 [doi]
  10. DeFrantz, TF, Them: Recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance, in The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory (January, 2018), pp. 268-292, ISBN 9780819577740
  11. DeFrantz, TF, I Am Black: (You have to be willing to not know), Theater, vol. 47 no. 2 (January, 2017), pp. 9-21, Duke University Press [doi]
  12. DeFrantz, TF, Identifying the endgame, Theater, vol. 47 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 3-15, Duke University Press [doi]
  13. Defrantz, TF, Bone-breaking, black social dance, and queer corporeal orature, The Black Scholar, vol. 46 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 66-74, Informa UK Limited [doi]
  14. DeFrantz, TF; Willis, TA, Introduction: Black moves: New research in black dance studies, The Black Scholar, vol. 46 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 1-3, Informa UK Limited [doi]
  15. DeFrantz, T, Hip Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance, in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Borelli, MB (July, 2014), pp. 476 pages, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199897824
  16. DeFrantz, T, Hip Hop Habitus v.2.0, in Black Performance Theory: An Anthology of Critical Readings, edited by DeFrantz, TF; Gonzalez, A (April, 2014), pp. 223-242, Duke University Press, ISBN 0822377012  [abs]
  17. DeFrantz, T, Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance, in Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, edited by Nielson, L; Ybarra, P (August, 2012), pp. 128-140, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781137035530
  18. DeFrantz, T, Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance, in Neoliberalism and Global Theatres, edited by Nielsen, LD; Ybarra, P (July, 2012), pp. 328 pages, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1137035536  [abs]
  19. DeFrantz, T, Theorizing Connectivity: African American Women in Concert Dance, Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 4 no. 6 (September, 2011), pp. 56-74 [htm]  [abs]
  20. DeFrantz, TF, Movement in the age of globalization: A Panel, Theater, vol. 40 no. 1 (April, 2010), pp. 39-45, Duke University Press, ISSN 0161-0775 [doi]
  21. DeFrantz, T, 'Popular Dances of the 1920s and early 30s: From Animal Dance Crazes to the Lindy Hop' and 'Popular African American Dance of the 1950s and 60s.', in Ain't Nothing LIke the Real Thing, edited by Carlin, R; Conwill, K (April, 2010), pp. 66-70, Smithsonian Inst Press (Natl Museum of African American History and Culture), ISBN 1588342697  [abs]
  22. DeFrantz, T, Performing The Breaks: African American Aesthetic Structures, Theatre Journal, vol. 40 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 31-37, Duke University Press, ISSN 0192-2882 [doi]
  23. DeFrantz, T, Donald Byrd: Re/Making 'Beauty', in Dance discourses, edited by Franco, S; France, CNDLD (December, 2007), pp. 221-235, Routledge, ISBN 0415423082 [doi]  [abs]
  24. DeFrantz, T, Hip Hop Sexualities, in Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies, edited by Seidman, S; Fischer, N; Meeks, C (March, 2007), pp. 512 pages, Routledge, ISBN 113416923X
  25. DeFrantz, TE, Composite Bodies of dance: The repertory of the Alvin Ailey American dance theater, Theatre Journal, vol. 57 no. 4 (December, 2005), pp. 659-678, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0192-2882 [doi]
  26. DeFrantz, T, On the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory, edited by Lepecki, A (2004), pp. 64-81, Wesleyan University Press
  27. DeFrantz, T, Believe the Hype! Hype Williams and Afro-Futurist Filmmaking, Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, vol. 4 (2003), ISSN 1447-4905 [available here]
  28. DeFrantz, T, African American Dance: A Complex History, in Dancing Many Drums, edited by Defrantz, TF (April, 2002), pp. 384 pages, Univ of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299173135  [abs]
  29. Defrantz, TF, IV. Blacking Queer Dance, Dance Research Journal, vol. 34 no. 2 (January, 2002), pp. 102-105 [doi]
  30. DeFrantz, T, Being Savion Glover: Translocation, Black Masculinity, and Hip Hop Tap Dance, edited by Burt, R; Foster, SL, Discourses in Dance (2002), pp. 102-105, ISSN 1474-533X
  31. DeFrantz, T, Blacking Queer Dance, Dance Research Journal, vol. 34 no. 2 (2002), pp. 102-105, JSTOR [doi]
  32. DeFrantz, T, Black Bodies Dancing Black Culture: Black Atlantic Transformations, Embodying Liberation: the Black Body in American Dance, vol. 4 (2001), pp. 11-16
  33. DeFrantz, T, Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World. By Dale Cockrell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997; 256 pp.; $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, UPNE, 1996; 310 pp.; 25 illustrations, $22.95 paper. Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895–1910. By David Krasner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997; 252 pp.; $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper., Tdr/The Drama Review, vol. 44 no. 3 (September, 2000), pp. 183-188, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1054-2043 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. DeFrantz, T, Ballet In Black: Louis Johnson and Vernacular Humor, in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories, edited by Doolittle, L; Flynn, A (2000), pp. 178-195, Banff Centre Press, ISBN 0920159699
  35. DeFrantz, T, To Make Black Bodies Strange: Social Protest in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement, in African American Performance: A Sourcebook, edited by Bean, A (1999), pp. 83-93, Routledge
  36. DeFrantz, T, Stoned Soul Picnic: Alvin Ailey and the Struggle to Define Official Black Culture, in Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, edited by Guillory, M; Green, R (1998), pp. 216-227, NYU Press
  37. DeFrantz, T, Black dance confab focuses on education + Dallas-Black-Dance-Theatre hosts the 10th annual conference of the International-Association-of-Blacks-in-Dance, Dance Magazine, vol. 71 no. 5 (1997), pp. 20-&, ISSN 0011-6009 [Gateway.cgi]
  38. DeFrantz, T, Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance, in Moving Words: New Directions in Dance Criticism, edited by Morris, G (1996), pp. 216-227, Routledge

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