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.