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In Becoming Beautiful, 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.
Bosse uses sensitive fieldwork as well as 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 real people who connect with others, change themselves, and join 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 critical perspectives on the experiences the dance hall provides, the nature of partnership and connection, and the notion of how dancing allows anyone to become beautiful.| Cover Title Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Beautiful Interlude 1. The Classification of Style 2. Rules of Engagement: Marketing Safety and Managing Risk in the Ballroom Interlude Photo Gallery 3. Bringing Coherence to the Sensuous Life: Connection and Partnership Among Social Dancers 4. Performing Race, Remaking Whiteness Interlude 5. Joy, Flow, and Personal Transformation Interlude Appendix Notes References Index | "Her prose is at once engaging and accessible, her thinking rich in theoretical depth and imagination. This is a book that charts new territory at the fused horizons of music, dance, and popular culture studies."
—Michael Bakan, author of World Music: Traditions and Transformations
"Becoming Beautiful will offer many readers a window into experiences of beauty and redemption enjoyed by ballroom dance practitioners."—Middle West Review
"Joanna Bosse, in Becoming Beautiful, plumbs the personal journeys people undertake 'in intimate conversation' with others in the dance worlds they construct. In doing so, she has produced a work of groundbreaking scholarship which is both moving and profoundly insightful."—Ted Solís, editor of Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
|Joanna Bosse is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and dance ethnography at Michigan State University.
Bosse uses sensitive fieldwork as well as 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 real people who connect with others, change themselves, and join 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 critical perspectives on the experiences the dance hall provides, the nature of partnership and connection, and the notion of how dancing allows anyone to become beautiful.| Cover Title Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Beautiful Interlude 1. The Classification of Style 2. Rules of Engagement: Marketing Safety and Managing Risk in the Ballroom Interlude Photo Gallery 3. Bringing Coherence to the Sensuous Life: Connection and Partnership Among Social Dancers 4. Performing Race, Remaking Whiteness Interlude 5. Joy, Flow, and Personal Transformation Interlude Appendix Notes References Index | "Her prose is at once engaging and accessible, her thinking rich in theoretical depth and imagination. This is a book that charts new territory at the fused horizons of music, dance, and popular culture studies."
—Michael Bakan, author of World Music: Traditions and Transformations
"Becoming Beautiful will offer many readers a window into experiences of beauty and redemption enjoyed by ballroom dance practitioners."—Middle West Review
"Joanna Bosse, in Becoming Beautiful, plumbs the personal journeys people undertake 'in intimate conversation' with others in the dance worlds they construct. In doing so, she has produced a work of groundbreaking scholarship which is both moving and profoundly insightful."—Ted Solís, editor of Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
|Joanna Bosse is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and dance ethnography at Michigan State University.
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