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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Derek Miller (Harvard University, Massachusetts)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781108441698ISBN 10: 1108441696 Pages: 291 Publication Date: 16 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: copyright, commodification, and performance; 1. Performance's valuable propriety, 1770–1833; 2. Ontologies of the performance-commodity, 1833–86; 3. Audiences, actors, and value, 1852–1911; 4. The performance-commodity at work, 1833–1911; Epilogue: valuing performance today; Appendix: timeline of major legislation and litigation affecting performance rights.Reviews'Derek Miller's superb study examines how live performances of drama and music became objects of legally protected commodification between 1770 and 1911. In addition to his extended treatment of nearly a dozen major legal cases, Miller supplies a wealth of material from dozens of minor disputes as well as some wonderful archival finds from case files. Copyright and the Value of Performance will be important for literary and performance historians for its expanded account of what copyright is, was, and can be.' John Shanahan, Modern Drama 'Derek Miller's superb study examines how live performances of drama and music became objects of legally protected commodification between 1770 and 1911. In addition to his extended treatment of nearly a dozen major legal cases, Miller supplies a wealth of material from dozens of minor disputes as well as some wonderful archival finds from case files. Copyright and the Value of Performance will be important for literary and performance historians for its expanded account of what copyright is, was, and can be.' John Shanahan, Modern Drama 'Derek Miller's superb study examines how live performances of drama and music became objects of legally protected commodification between 1770 and 1911. In addition to his extended treatment of nearly a dozen major legal cases, Miller supplies a wealth of material from dozens of minor disputes as well as some wonderful archival finds from case files. Copyright and the Value of Performance will be important for literary and performance historians for its expanded account of what copyright is, was, and can be.' John Shanahan, Modern Drama Author InformationDerek Miller is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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