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 womens historically contingent relationship to property rights; legacies of ownership of black bodies and appropriation of non-white labor; and the tension between dances ephemerality and its reproducibility.
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