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DeFrantz :recent first alphabetical combined listing:%% Books @book{fds305873, Title = {Dancing Many Drums}, Pages = {384 pages}, Publisher = {Univ of Wisconsin Press}, Editor = {Defrantz, TF}, Year = {2002}, Month = {April}, ISBN = {0299173135}, Abstract = {Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing.}, Key = {fds305873} } @book{fds291716, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture}, Pages = {1-320}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Year = {2011}, Month = {October}, ISBN = {9780195301717}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301717.001.0001}, Abstract = {In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the civil rights struggle. This book chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. The book not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century. It examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and interviews with former Ailey company dancers. The book reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. It illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. It also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution. Throughout, the book illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances, arguing that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon.}, Doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301717.001.0001}, Key = {fds291716} } @book{fds305872, Title = {Black Performance Theory}, Pages = {296 pages}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Editor = {DeFrantz, TF and Gonzalez, A}, Year = {2014}, Month = {April}, ISBN = {0822377012}, Abstract = {This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.}, Key = {fds305872} } @book{fds353086, Author = {Perkins, KA and Richards, SL and Craft, RA and De Frantz, TF}, Title = {The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance}, Pages = {1-426}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Year = {2018}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9781138726710}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315191225}, Abstract = {The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), festivals, and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims, women of the Black Arts Movement, Afro-Latinx theatre, youth theatre, and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews, sense-making, rituals, and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen, classroom, club, or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre.}, Doi = {10.4324/9781315191225}, Key = {fds353086} } %% Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books @article{fds291704, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance}, Pages = {216-227}, Booktitle = {Moving Words: New Directions in Dance Criticism}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Editor = {Morris, G}, Year = {1996}, Key = {fds291704} } @article{fds291722, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Black dance confab focuses on education + Dallas-Black-Dance-Theatre hosts the 10th annual conference of the International-Association-of-Blacks-in-Dance}, Journal = {Dance Magazine}, Volume = {71}, Number = {5}, Pages = {20-&}, Year = {1997}, ISSN = {0011-6009}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1997WT45400007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Key = {fds291722} } @article{fds291705, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Stoned Soul Picnic: Alvin Ailey and the Struggle to Define Official Black Culture}, Pages = {216-227}, Booktitle = {Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure}, Publisher = {NYU Press}, Editor = {Guillory, M and Green, R}, Year = {1998}, Key = {fds291705} } @article{fds291706, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {To Make Black Bodies Strange: Social Protest in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement}, Pages = {83-93}, Booktitle = {African American Performance: A Sourcebook}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Editor = {Bean, A}, Year = {1999}, Key = {fds291706} } @article{fds291707, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Ballet In Black: Louis Johnson and Vernacular Humor}, Pages = {178-195}, Booktitle = {Dancing Bodies, Living Histories}, Publisher = {Banff Centre Press}, Editor = {Doolittle, L and Flynn, A}, Year = {2000}, ISBN = {0920159699}, Key = {fds291707} } @article{fds291724, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {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.}, Journal = {Tdr/The Drama Review}, Volume = {44}, Number = {3}, Pages = {183-188}, Publisher = {MIT Press - Journals}, Year = {2000}, Month = {September}, ISSN = {1054-2043}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000088956700014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.1162/dram.2000.44.3.183}, Key = {fds291724} } @article{fds291700, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Black Bodies Dancing Black Culture: Black Atlantic Transformations}, Journal = {Embodying Liberation: the Black Body in American Dance}, Volume = {4}, Pages = {11-16}, Year = {2001}, Key = {fds291700} } @article{fds291701, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Being Savion Glover: Translocation, Black Masculinity, and Hip Hop Tap Dance}, Journal = {Discourses in Dance}, Pages = {102-105}, Editor = {Burt, R and Foster, SL}, Year = {2002}, ISSN = {1474-533X}, Key = {fds291701} } @article{fds291702, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Blacking Queer Dance}, Journal = {Dance Research Journal}, Volume = {34}, Number = {2}, Pages = {102-105}, Publisher = {JSTOR}, Year = {2002}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1478465}, Doi = {10.2307/1478465}, Key = {fds291702} } @article{fds343286, Author = {Defrantz, TF}, Title = {IV. Blacking Queer Dance}, Journal = {Dance Research Journal}, Volume = {34}, Number = {2}, Pages = {102-105}, Year = {2002}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1478465}, Doi = {10.2307/1478465}, Key = {fds343286} } @article{fds291708, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {African American Dance: A Complex History}, Pages = {384 pages}, Booktitle = {Dancing Many Drums}, Publisher = {Univ of Wisconsin Press}, Editor = {Defrantz, TF}, Year = {2002}, Month = {April}, ISBN = {0299173135}, Abstract = {Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing.}, Key = {fds291708} } @article{fds291703, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Believe the Hype! Hype Williams and Afro-Futurist Filmmaking}, Journal = {Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media}, Volume = {4}, Year = {2003}, ISSN = {1447-4905}, url = {http://refractory.unimelb.edu.au/2003/08/27/believe-the-hype-hype-williams-and-afrofuturist-filmmaking-thomas-f-defrantz/}, Key = {fds291703} } @article{fds291709, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {On the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory}, Pages = {64-81}, Publisher = {Wesleyan University Press}, Editor = {Lepecki, A}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds291709} } @article{fds291719, Author = {DeFrantz, TE}, Title = {Composite Bodies of dance: The repertory of the Alvin Ailey American dance theater}, Journal = {Theatre Journal}, Volume = {57}, Number = {4}, Pages = {659-678}, Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, Year = {2005}, Month = {December}, ISSN = {0192-2882}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tj.2006.0012}, Doi = {10.1353/tj.2006.0012}, Key = {fds291719} } @article{fds291710, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Hip Hop Sexualities}, Pages = {512 pages}, Booktitle = {Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Editor = {Seidman, S and Fischer, N and Meeks, C}, Year = {2007}, Month = {March}, ISBN = {113416923X}, Key = {fds291710} } @article{fds291711, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Donald Byrd: Re/Making 'Beauty'}, Pages = {221-235}, Booktitle = {Dance discourses}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Editor = {Franco, S and France, CNDLD}, Year = {2007}, Month = {December}, ISBN = {0415423082}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539171-24}, Abstract = {What are the terms of “beauty” as an action that may be achieved in dance? How do African-American artists approach the performance of “beauty?" In a preliminary consideration of these questions, this paper offers a case-study analysis of two works by choreographer Donald Byrd: The Harlem Nutcracker (1996), a revision of the Petipa-Ivanov ballet set to Duke Ellington’s swing adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s score, and Life Situations: Daydreams on Giselle (1995), a postmodern version of the quintessential Romantic ballet. Working through prisms of feminist and Africanist aesthetic theory, I suggest strategies to critique identity formation within dance performance as a function of aggressive irony, inversion, and the triumph of technical precision. Byrd’s choreography constructs “beauty” as a function of black Atlantic1 performance practice, as an act that may be socially progressive in its intentions, and an action that may hold material consequences for its performers and audiences.}, Doi = {10.4324/9781315539171-24}, Key = {fds291711} } @article{fds291725, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Performing The Breaks: African American Aesthetic Structures}, Journal = {Theatre Journal}, Volume = {40}, Number = {1}, Pages = {31-37}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2010}, Month = {January}, ISSN = {0192-2882}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-2009-017}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-2009-017}, Key = {fds291725} } @article{fds291712, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {'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.'}, Pages = {66-70}, Booktitle = {Ain't Nothing LIke the Real Thing}, Publisher = {Smithsonian Inst Press (Natl Museum of African American History and Culture)}, Editor = {Carlin, R and Conwill, K}, Year = {2010}, Month = {April}, ISBN = {1588342697}, Abstract = {Celebrates the seventy-five years of the Apollo Theater, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, discussing its significance in African American entertainment and its role in social and political racial issues.}, Key = {fds291712} } @article{fds291720, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Movement in the age of globalization: A Panel}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {40}, Number = {1}, Pages = {39-45}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2010}, Month = {April}, ISSN = {0161-0775}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-2009-019}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-2009-019}, Key = {fds291720} } @article{fds291718, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Theorizing Connectivity: African American Women in Concert Dance}, Journal = {Journal of Pan African Studies}, Volume = {4}, Number = {6}, Pages = {56-74}, Year = {2011}, Month = {September}, url = {http://www.jpanafrican.com/vol4no6.htm}, Keywords = {American modern dance • dance theory • Judy Dearing • Thelma Hill • Carole Johnson • Edisa Weeks}, Abstract = {This essay explores genealogies of Black women’s presence in American modern dance to theorize connectivity as a methodology to appreciate their creative work. The legacies of more familiar dance artists, including Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, are discussed in relation to achievements and interventions by less-discussed, but no less important, African American women including Joan Myers Brown, Judy Dearing, Thelma Hill, Carole Johnson, and Edisa Weeks. The essay offers evidence of a radical creative tradition within these genealogies; one that has been less widely appreciated by mainstream histories of dance, but surely influential in the creation of American concert dance.}, Key = {fds291718} } @article{fds291713, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance}, Pages = {328 pages}, Booktitle = {Neoliberalism and Global Theatres}, Publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, Editor = {Nielsen, LD and Ybarra, P}, Year = {2012}, Month = {July}, ISBN = {1137035536}, Abstract = {Given the economic violence so clearly present in our contemporary moment throughout the globe, this volume provides crucial analysis of how we got here, looking at performances from the 18th century to the present.}, Key = {fds291713} } @article{fds291717, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance}, Pages = {128-140}, Booktitle = {Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations}, Publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, Editor = {Nielson, L and Ybarra, P}, Year = {2012}, Month = {August}, ISBN = {9781137035530}, Key = {fds291717} } @article{fds291715, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Hip Hop Habitus v.2.0}, Pages = {223-242}, Booktitle = {Black Performance Theory: An Anthology of Critical Readings}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Editor = {DeFrantz, TF and Gonzalez, A}, Year = {2014}, Month = {April}, ISBN = {0822377012}, Abstract = {This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.}, Key = {fds291715} } @article{fds291714, Author = {DeFrantz, T}, Title = {Hip Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance}, Pages = {476 pages}, Booktitle = {The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Editor = {Borelli, MB}, Year = {2014}, Month = {July}, ISBN = {0199897824}, Key = {fds291714} } @article{fds317906, Author = {Defrantz, TF}, Title = {Bone-breaking, black social dance, and queer corporeal orature}, Journal = {The Black Scholar}, Volume = {46}, Number = {1}, Pages = {66-74}, Publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, Year = {2016}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2015.1119624}, Doi = {10.1080/00064246.2015.1119624}, Key = {fds317906} } @article{fds317907, Author = {DeFrantz, TF and Willis, TA}, Title = {Introduction: Black moves: New research in black dance studies}, Journal = {The Black Scholar}, Volume = {46}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1-3}, Publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, Year = {2016}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2016.1119632}, Doi = {10.1080/00064246.2016.1119632}, Key = {fds317907} } @article{fds326975, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {I Am Black: (You have to be willing to not know)}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {47}, Number = {2}, Pages = {9-21}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2017}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-3785122}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-3785122}, Key = {fds326975} } @article{fds326587, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Identifying the endgame}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {47}, Number = {1}, Pages = {3-15}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2017}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-3710429}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-3710429}, Key = {fds326587} } @article{fds336247, Author = {DeFrantz, TF and Badejo, P}, Title = {Forewords}, Pages = {vii-xii}, Publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, Year = {2018}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9783319703138}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70314-5}, Doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-70314-5}, Key = {fds336247} } @article{fds340491, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Them: Recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance}, Pages = {268-292}, Booktitle = {The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory}, Year = {2018}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780819577740}, Key = {fds340491} } @article{fds340747, Author = {Defrantz, TF}, Title = {White privilege}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {48}, Number = {3}, Pages = {23-37}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2018}, Month = {November}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-7084669}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-7084669}, Key = {fds340747} } @article{fds364328, Author = {Coleman, G and Defrantz, TF}, Title = {Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies}, Pages = {53-67}, Booktitle = {We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions}, Year = {2019}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9783837646016}, Key = {fds364328} } @article{fds359081, Author = {Defrantz, TF}, Title = {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}, Journal = {Performance Research}, Volume = {25}, Number = {8}, Pages = {176-177}, Year = {2020}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2020.1930793}, Doi = {10.1080/13528165.2020.1930793}, Key = {fds359081} } @article{fds355182, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {The talking}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {50}, Number = {3}, Pages = {63-67}, Year = {2020}, Month = {November}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-8651207}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-8651207}, Key = {fds355182} } @article{fds355183, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Soundz at the back of my head}, Journal = {Theater}, Volume = {50}, Number = {3}, Pages = {69-85}, Year = {2020}, Month = {November}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-8651221}, Doi = {10.1215/01610775-8651221}, Key = {fds355183} } @article{fds358729, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {The race of contemporary ballet: Interpellations of africanist aesthetics}, Pages = {562-580}, Booktitle = {The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet}, Year = {2021}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780190871499}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190871499.013.7}, Abstract = {This chapter considers the tripartite formation of who, what, and how in considerations of Africanist aesthetics and Black mobilizations that fuel contemporary ballet. Who dances contemporary ballet, and are they Black? What sorts of Black dance movements are deployed in contemporary ballet? And, most important, how does a Black attitude mark performances within ballet as belonging to a contemporary moment? The chapter presumes that contemporary ballet emerges in direct relationship to Africanist aesthetics. It considers work by William Forsythe, Alonzo King, and Twyla Tharp as a trio of artists whose work continues to circulate with different relationships to questions of Black dancers, dances, dancing, and the contemporary.}, Doi = {10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190871499.013.7}, Key = {fds358729} } @article{fds358324, Author = {Defrantz, TF}, Title = {Intermediality and queer African American improvisation: Dianne mcintyre, sounds in motion}, Journal = {Theatre Research International}, Volume = {46}, Number = {2}, Pages = {115-127}, Year = {2021}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0307883321000055}, Abstract = {This article explores the work of choreographer Dianne McIntyre as an improvisational artist entangled in questions of intermedial relations among sounds and motions. It discusses the terms of performance in relation to emergent paradigms of Afro-pessimism, and argues for a black regard as a method of engaging with experimental performances by artists of African descent. The article explores theoretical terms of witness and encounter with black performance in relation to queer alterities, and non-normative modes of physical expression. The article suggests further need for research into the work of an outstanding black American female artist of theatre and dance.}, Doi = {10.1017/S0307883321000055}, Key = {fds358324} } @article{fds364099, Author = {DeFrantz, TF}, Title = {Black dance and technologies of wellness}, Journal = {Theatre, Dance and Performance Training}, Volume = {13}, Number = {2}, Pages = {212-213}, Year = {2022}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2022.2066380}, Doi = {10.1080/19443927.2022.2066380}, Key = {fds364099} } | |
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