Critical race theory and copyright in American dance : whiteness as status property /
The effort to win federal copyright protection for dance choreography in the United States was a simultaneously racialized and gendered contest. Copyright and choreography, particularly as tied with whiteness, have a refractory history. This book examines the evolution of choreographic works from be...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Comparing aesthetics of whiteness and nonwhiteness in relation to American dance
- Loíe Fuller, "Goddess of Light," and Josephine Baker, 'Black Venus" : non-narrative choreography as mere 'spectacle'
- George Balanchine, "Genius of American Dance" : whiteness, choreography, copyrightability in American dance
- Martha Graham, "Picasso of American Dance," and Katherine Dunham, 'Matriarch of Black Dance' : exoticism and nonwhiteness in American dance
- Moving into new directions : Cunningham and Ailey.