Choreographing Copyright Race Gender and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance 1st Edition by Anthea Kraut ISBN 0199360375 978-0199360376

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ISBN 10: 0199360375 

ISBN 13: 978-0199360376

Author: Anthea Kraut

Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers’ investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics, showing how dancers have embraced intellectual property rights as a means to both consolidate and contest racial and gendered power.

A number of the artists featured in the book are well-known in the history of American dance, including Loie Fuller, Hanya Holm, and Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, and George Balanchine. But the book also uncovers a host of marginalized figures–from the South Asian dancer Mohammed Ismail, to the African American pantomimist Johnny Hudgins, to the African American blues singer Alberta Hunter, to the white burlesque dancer Faith Dane–who were equally interested in positioning themselves as subjects rather than objects of property.

Drawing on critical race and feminist theories and on cultural studies of copyright, Choreographing Copyright offers fresh insight into the raced and gendered hierarchies that govern the theatrical marketplace, white women’s historically contingent relationship to property rights, legacies of ownership of black bodies and appropriation of non-white labor, and the tension between dance’s ephemerality and its reproducibility.

Table of contents: 

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Dance Plus Copyright
Chapter One: White Womanhood and Early Campaigns for Choreographic Copyright
Chapter Two: The Black Body as Object and Subject of Property
Chapter Three: “Stealing Steps” and Signature Moves: Alternative Systems of Copyright
Chapter Four: “High-brow Meets Low-Down”: Copyright on Broadway
Chapter Five: Copyright and the Death/Life of the Choreographer
Coda: Beyoncé v. De Keersmaeker
Appendix: A Timeline of Intellectual Property Rights and Dance in the United States
Select Bibliography
Index

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