Becoming Beautiful: Ballroom Dance in the American Heartland

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In Becoming Beautiful, Joanna Bosse explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town once they step out at the dance floor for the first actual time.
 
Bosse uses sensitive fieldwork in addition to her own immersion in ballroom culture to lead readers into a community that springs up around ballroom dance. The result is a portrait of the true individuals who connect with others, change themselves, and sign up for a world that foxtrots to its own rules, conventions, and rewards. Bosse’s eye for revealing, humorous detail adds warmth and depth to discussions around vital perspectives at the experiences the dance hall provides, the nature of partnership and connection, and the notion of how dancing allows someone to develop into beautiful.

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