Becoming beautiful : ballroom dance in the American heartland /

Bosse, Joanna,

Becoming beautiful : ballroom dance in the American heartland / Joanna Bosse. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

The classification of style -- Rules of engagement : marketing safety and managing risk in the ballroom -- Bringing coherence to the sensuous life : connection and partnership -- Performing race, remaking whiteness -- Joy, flow, and personal transformation.

Joanna Bosse explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town when they step out on the dance floor for the very first time.



9781322869872

2019723573

017073700 Uk


Ballroom dancing--History.--Middle West


Electronic Books.

GV1751 / .B436 2015