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This book provides a historical and cultural analysis of US–based dance-makers’ investment in intellectual property rights. Although federal copyright law in the United States did not recognize choreography as a protectable class prior to the 1976 Copyright Act, efforts to win copyright protection for dance began eight decades earlier. In a series of case studies stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs those efforts and teases out their raced and gendered politics. Rather than chart a narrative of progress, the book shows how dancers working in a range of genres 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 white figures in the history of American dance, including modern dancers Loïe Fuller, Hanya Holm, and Martha Graham, and ballet artists 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, as possessive individuals rather than exchangeable commodities. Choreographic copyright, the book argues, has been a site for the reinforcement of gendered white privilege as well as for challenges to it.
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Keywords
- Agnes de Mille
- American dance
- Choreographic copyright
- Copyright Law
- George Balanchine
- intellectual property rights
- Johnny Hudgins
- Loïe Fuller
- Martha eGraham
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance::ATQC Choreography
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNR Intellectual property law::LNRC Copyright law
- white privilege
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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199360369.001.0001Editions