List of partner dance books
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Listed below are books that describe the techniques of various partner dances.
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[edit] Ballroom dancing
[edit] Basic books for the International Style
- Alex Moore:
- The Ballroom Technique
- Ballroom Dancing, an elaboration on the above book (9th Edition, 1986, ISBN 0-7136-2794-8)
- Popular Variations (numerous reprints and editions since 1954)
- Victor Silvester, Modern Ballroom Dancing. Stanley Paul, London (first published 1928, 1993 edition ISBN 0-09-178193-0, current edition 2005)
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD):
- The Ballroom Technique, (numerous reprints and editions since 1948) originally based on a work of the same name by Alex Moore.
- The Revised Technique of Latin-American Dancing, (reprints and editions since 1971)
- Popular Variations in Latin-American Dancing, (1982)
- Guy Howard, Technique of Ballroom Dancing
- Walter Laird:
- Technique of Latin Dancing
- Technique of Latin Dancing Supplement
- Jeff Carlsen, Certified Correct, a book for ballroom competition judges
[edit] Other
- Richard M. Stephenson, Joseph Iaccarino, "Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing" (1992) Main Street Books, ISBN 0385424167
- Jeffrey Allen, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing", 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 1592575773
[edit] Partner and social dance research and scholarship
- Juliet E. McMains (2006) "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry" Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0819567744
- The first in-depth study of the American DanceSport. See also "Dance fever: Recovery can be hard", an article about the book and the author at the University of Washington newspaper, University Week, November 30, 2006
- Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004) "A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music", University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1578066786
- About roles gender plays in creating and marketing the Country /Western musical and dance forms
