Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

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.