Choreographing Copyright

Choreographing Copyright provides a historical and cultural analysis of U.S.-based dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights.

Anthea Kraut is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in critical dance studies. Her first book, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008 and received a Special Citation from the Society of Dance History Scholars' de la Torre Bueno Prize® for distinguished book of dance scholarship.

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
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Index