Brynn W. Shiovitz, PhD
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Other Publications

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“Foong Toong Fee” Little Johnny Jones, Piano Score Cover c. 1904, Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Courtesy of the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

​Journal Articles
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“Drawing on His Image: Amputated Sounds, Sonic Simulacra, and the Death of Bill Robinson,”
SCREEN, Vol. 65, no. 1 (21 March 2024)

​“Screen/dance in the United States: engaging the moving bodies in moving pictures, a Roundtable discussion with Pamela Krayenbuhl (moderator), Hilary Bergen, Colleen Dunagan, Anthea Kraut, Brynn Shiovitz, and Sylvie Vitaglione,” Jump Cut: a Review of Contemporary Media, No. 61, (5 September 2022).

“Configuring Konfituerenberg: How Fixing Nutcracker’s Trepak Helped Build the National Image,” 
Dance Chronicle Vol. 44, no. 1, 2021, pp. 26–57.  

“Queue the Music: Cohan’s Yellowface Substitution in Little Johnny Jones,” Theatre Survey. Vol.
59/Issue 2. Spring 2018.

“An Evening with Fluxus Women,” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory,
Fluxus Vol. 19, Issue 2. Winter 2009. 

Book Chapters
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“Liberty Covered in Lights: How the Great Black Way Became White through George M. Cohan’s Sonic 
Manipulations” in The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance. Ed. Thomas DeFrantz. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming, Winter 2026).

Selected Essays

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“An Excuse to Make Noise: On Todd Decker’s ‘Astaire by Numbers’ and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s ‘Dancing Down the Barricades’,” Los Angeles Review of Books (September 22, 2023) 

Review of “Jazz Tap Originals: A Collection of Live Performances (1979-2012),” Jazz 
     Perspectives. Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 313-318. November 2016.

Review of “Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire,” Dance Research Journal,
     46, pp. 120-123. 2014.

Review of “Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy,” Dance Research
     Journal, 45, pp. 131-134. 2013. 

“Gotta Move: Women in Tap,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 22:1,
     161-163. Summer 2012. 
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“Tapping into Race, Women, and Rhythm,” Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and Related
     Arts, Vol. 34, No. 2. 2011.

Book/Media Reviews

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Fiona Fuerstner as a Candy Ribbon dancer in Lew Christensen’s Nutcracker 1954 for San Francisco Ballet. Courtesy of the Museum of Performance + Design, San Francisco. 

Other Publications
"I Fought Two Monsters: James Toback and Shame" Vanity Fair, May 2025
"Chloe Arnold's Syncopated Ladies Live! Celebrates Intimacy, Strength, and Girl Power" LA Dance Chronicle, Fall 2022

“Is Putin Dead,” Newsweek (digital), March 17, 2022
“The Perils of ‘Jewface,’” Jewish Journal, March 25-31, 2022
“The Shim Sham: A Tap Tradition,” Dance Spirit, Vol. 14, No. 12, Dec. 2010
“Opportunities for Student Tappers at Rhythm World,” Dance Teacher, Vol. 32, No. 11, Nov. 2010
“It’s About Time: Mastering the Time Step,” Dance Spirit, Vol. 14, No. 4, April 2010
“25 to Watch: Company C Ballet,” Dance Magazine Vol. 84, No. 1 Jan. 2010 
“Improving Your Improv,” Dance Spirit, Vol. 13, No.8 Oct. 2009

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