Books:
CRAWFORD, S (2019) “Improvising the Future, Expanding Perspectives of Tap Dance Scholarship”. TORRES,N, AMINATA, C, DONELLY, L, S, NZINGA, M Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability: Rituals of Modern Society. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
BUFFALINO, B (2004) Tapping the Source: Tap Dance Stories, Theory, and Practice Codhill Press.
DEFRANTZ,T.F.(2002) Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
DUFFY, B. (2017) Tap Into Improv: A Guide to Tap Dance Improvisation. Barbara Duffy Publisher.
FELDMAN, A. (1996) Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today’s Tap Dancer. Heightstown: Princeton Book Company, Publishers.
PLETCHER, T. (1954) 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business: The Tom Fletcher Story
FRANK,R.(1995) TAP! TheGreatestTapDanceStarsandTheirStories1900-1955. DeCappoPress
GLOVER, S and WEBBER, B. (2000) Savion!: My Life in Tap William Morrow and Company.
GOTTSCHILD, B, D. (1998) Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance Dance and Other Context.
HILL, C. V. (2000) Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. New York: Cooper Square Press.
HILL, C. V. (2010) Tap Dancing America: a Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press.
KNOWLES, M. (1998) The Tap Dance Dictionary. Jefferson: MacFarland & Company.
KNOWLES, M. (2002) Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing. Jefferson: MacFarland.
MALNIG, J (2009) Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader University of Illinois Press.
MALONE, J. (1996) Steppin on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. Chicago: The University of Illinois Press.
SAMPSON, H, T. (1980) Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press.
SEAMAN, L, S. (1944) Tip Top Tapping: Simplified Lessons In Tap Dancing.
SIEBERT, B. (2015) What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
STEARNS, M. and STEARNS, J. (1968) Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: DaCapo.
THOMPSON, K. (2014) Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery. University of Illinois Press.
WILLIST, C. Tap Dance: Manifestation of the African Aesthetic in ASANTE, K, W (2002) African Dance
Articles:
HILL, C, V “On National Tap Dance Day, May the Critics Hail: ‘Tap Dance Is Dead Right for Everybody!’” Available from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/may-critics-hail-tap-dance-dead-right-everybody/#!
KRAUT, A. “Stealing Steps” and Signature Moves: Embodied Theories of Dance as Intellectual Property. Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.), 05/2010, Volume 62, Issue 2
MACRELL, J. “On the hoof: Tap is cool again – but Fred Astaire would never believe what’s happened to his dance. Judith Mackrell reports”. 1 June 2005. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jun/01/dance
Obituaries:
GREEN, J. “One Man, Many Voices – A Tribute to Tobias Tak” Hotfoot Online Spring 2020 p61-63 https://issuu.com/onedanceuk/docs/hotfoot_spring_2020/61
FORDHAM, J. “Will Gaines obituary” 14 May 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/14/will-gaines
Will Gaines – obituary 8 May 2014 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10817338/Will-Gaines-obituary.html (Note: paywall)
MONAGHAN, T. “Ernest ‘Brownie’ Brown obituary”. 27 Oct 2009. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/oct/27/ernest-brownie-brown-obituary
MONAGHAN, T. “Jimmy Clark obituary”. 19 Nov 2009. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/19/jimmy-clark-obituary
Reviews:
WALLIS SIMONS, J. “Strictly come tap dancing, with “Strictly” winner Tom Chambers”. 14 September 2012. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9541478/Strictly-come-tap-dancing-with-Strictly-winner-Tom-Chambers.html (Note: paywall)
FORDHAM, J. “Will Gaines”. 8 April 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/08/jazz
ROY, S. “Turned on Tap”. 6 June 2005. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jun/06/dance1
HUTERA, D. “Turned on Tap”. 7 June 2005. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/turned-on-tap-77dw3hk2nxk
MEISNER, N. “New York on Tap”. 18 June 2002. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/new-york-on-tap-queen-elizabeth-hall-london-180597.html
ROY, S. “New York on Tap”. 10 June 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/jun/10/dance.artsfeatures
WINTON, A. “‘Honi’ Coles – A Class Act”. August 2001. http://www.swingtime.co.uk/Reviews/events/honicole.html
WINSHIP, L, “Savion Glover, Sadler’s Wells – dance review”. 4 April 2014. https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/savion-glover-sadlers-wells-dance-review-9237829.html
MACKRELL, J. “Savion Glover: SoLe Sanctuary review – Dancing as a form of prayer”. 4 April 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/04/savion-glover-sole-sanctuary-review
GILBERT, J. “Savion Glover, Sadler’s Wells, London”. 30 Nov 2008. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/savion-glover-sadlers-wells-london-5464144.html
MACKRELL, J. “Savion Glover”. 28 Nov 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/nov/28/dance-savion-glover