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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.  Routledge, January, 2018: 1-426. [doi]  [abs]
  2.  Black Performance Theory.  edited by DeFrantz, TF; Gonzalez, A Duke University Press, April, 2014: 296 pages.  [abs]
  3. DeFrantz, TF. Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture.  Oxford University Press, October, 2011: 1-320. [doi]  [abs]
  4.  Dancing Many Drums.  edited by Defrantz, TF Univ of Wisconsin Press, April, 2002: 384 pages.  [abs]

Papers Published

  1. DeFrantz, TF. "Black dance and technologies of wellness." Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 13:2 (January, 2022): 212-213. [doi]
  2. Defrantz, TF. "Intermediality and queer African American improvisation: Dianne mcintyre, sounds in motion." Theatre Research International 46:2 (July, 2021): 115-127. [doi]  [abs]
  3. DeFrantz, TF. "The race of contemporary ballet: Interpellations of africanist aesthetics." The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet  (January, 2021): 562-580. [doi]  [abs]
  4. DeFrantz, TF. "The talking." Theater 50:3 (November, 2020): 63-67. [doi]
  5. DeFrantz, TF. "Soundz at the back of my head." Theater 50:3 (November, 2020): 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 25:8 (January, 2020): 176-177. [doi]
  7. Coleman, G; Defrantz, TF. "Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies." We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions  (January, 2019): 53-67.
  8. Defrantz, TF. "White privilege." Theater 48:3 (November, 2018): 23-37. [doi]
  9. DeFrantz, TF; Badejo, P. "Forewords."   (January, 2018): vii-xii. [doi]
  10. DeFrantz, TF. "Them: Recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance." The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory  (January, 2018): 268-292.
  11. DeFrantz, TF. "I Am Black: (You have to be willing to not know)." Theater 47:2 (January, 2017): 9-21. [doi]
  12. DeFrantz, TF. "Identifying the endgame." Theater 47:1 (January, 2017): 3-15. [doi]
  13. Defrantz, TF. "Bone-breaking, black social dance, and queer corporeal orature." The Black Scholar 46:1 (January, 2016): 66-74. [doi]
  14. DeFrantz, TF; Willis, TA. "Introduction: Black moves: New research in black dance studies." The Black Scholar 46:1 (January, 2016): 1-3. [doi]
  15. DeFrantz, T. "Hip Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance." The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen  (July, 2014): 476 pages.
  16. DeFrantz, T. "Hip Hop Habitus v.2.0." Black Performance Theory: An Anthology of Critical Readings  (April, 2014): 223-242.  [abs]
  17. DeFrantz, T. "Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance." Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations  (August, 2012): 128-140.
  18. DeFrantz, T. "Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance." Neoliberalism and Global Theatres  (July, 2012): 328 pages.  [abs]
  19. DeFrantz, T. "Theorizing Connectivity: African American Women in Concert Dance." Journal of Pan African Studies 4:6 (September, 2011): 56-74. [htm]  [abs]
  20. DeFrantz, TF. "Movement in the age of globalization: A Panel." Theater 40:1 (April, 2010): 39-45. [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.'." Ain't Nothing LIke the Real Thing  (April, 2010): 66-70.  [abs]
  22. DeFrantz, T. "Performing The Breaks: African American Aesthetic Structures." Theatre Journal 40:1 (January, 2010): 31-37. [doi]
  23. DeFrantz, T. "Donald Byrd: Re/Making 'Beauty'." Dance discourses  (December, 2007): 221-235. [doi]  [abs]
  24. DeFrantz, T. "Hip Hop Sexualities." Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies  (March, 2007): 512 pages.
  25. DeFrantz, TE. "Composite Bodies of dance: The repertory of the Alvin Ailey American dance theater." Theatre Journal 57:4 (December, 2005): 659-678. [doi]
  26. DeFrantz, T. "On the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory."   (2004): 64-81.
  27. DeFrantz, T. "Believe the Hype! Hype Williams and Afro-Futurist Filmmaking." Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 4 (2003). [available here]
  28. DeFrantz, T. "African American Dance: A Complex History." Dancing Many Drums  (April, 2002): 384 pages.  [abs]
  29. Defrantz, TF. "IV. Blacking Queer Dance." Dance Research Journal 34:2 (January, 2002): 102-105. [doi]
  30. DeFrantz, T. "Being Savion Glover: Translocation, Black Masculinity, and Hip Hop Tap Dance." Discourses in Dance  (2002): 102-105.
  31. DeFrantz, T. "Blacking Queer Dance." Dance Research Journal 34:2 (2002): 102-105. [doi]
  32. DeFrantz, T. "Black Bodies Dancing Black Culture: Black Atlantic Transformations." Embodying Liberation: the Black Body in American Dance 4 (2001): 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 44:3 (September, 2000): 183-188. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. DeFrantz, T. "Ballet In Black: Louis Johnson and Vernacular Humor." Dancing Bodies, Living Histories  (2000): 178-195.
  35. DeFrantz, T. "To Make Black Bodies Strange: Social Protest in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement." African American Performance: A Sourcebook  (1999): 83-93.
  36. DeFrantz, T. "Stoned Soul Picnic: Alvin Ailey and the Struggle to Define Official Black Culture." Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure  (1998): 216-227.
  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 71:5 (1997): 20-&. [Gateway.cgi]
  38. DeFrantz, T. "Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance." Moving Words: New Directions in Dance Criticism  (1996): 216-227.
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