SDsalsaguy
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While I don't think its widely available in the US yet, I am very happy to report that my book, Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance, is now in print! I just received my author's copies in the mail on Thursday, and just found out from Laura (see here, post #39) that it is being carried by one of the vendors at Blackpool.
For those who may not know, I finished my PhD in Cultural Anthropology in June of 2006, with my dissertation focusing on the culture and community of competitive ballroom dancing. Based on a paper I gave at the 2005 American Anthropological Association's annual meeting about my research, Joanne Eicher, editor for the Dress, Body, Culture series by Berg Publishers solicited a manuscript proposal. It took a little while to get that sorted into proper shape as I was still finishing up my doctoral dissertation, but the contract for this book was finalized on Nov. 30th, 2006.
While much of the book is based on on my dissertation, it involves a lot of reworked materials as well as some entirely new sections as well. In particular, my dissertation had three focal sections -- one each on community, culture, and self -- and focussed on competitive ballroom but also used salsa as a contrasting set of case materials. This book is largely an adaptation of the section on culture, but interwoven with entirely new materials on costuming, and only uses my competitive ballroom materials.
As taken from the publisher's website:
For those who are interested, Ballroom can be ordered through Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, and other such sources!
For those who may not know, I finished my PhD in Cultural Anthropology in June of 2006, with my dissertation focusing on the culture and community of competitive ballroom dancing. Based on a paper I gave at the 2005 American Anthropological Association's annual meeting about my research, Joanne Eicher, editor for the Dress, Body, Culture series by Berg Publishers solicited a manuscript proposal. It took a little while to get that sorted into proper shape as I was still finishing up my doctoral dissertation, but the contract for this book was finalized on Nov. 30th, 2006.
While much of the book is based on on my dissertation, it involves a lot of reworked materials as well as some entirely new sections as well. In particular, my dissertation had three focal sections -- one each on community, culture, and self -- and focussed on competitive ballroom but also used salsa as a contrasting set of case materials. This book is largely an adaptation of the section on culture, but interwoven with entirely new materials on costuming, and only uses my competitive ballroom materials.
As taken from the publisher's website:
While there's no way that I could possibly give due thanks to everyone involved, I should point out that among the many people I interviewed in the course of my reasearch were several DFers (such as Laura, Threestep, and Gary McDonald) and that other DFers were instrumentally conducive to various facets of my research (such as dressgirl, Larinda, and Judi Hatton). Deserving of special note concerning this book, however, are ChaChaMama, who provided me with feedback on the first draft of the manuscript, and reb, for his tremendous efforts, feedback, proofing and insight in preparing the final version of the manuscript.
For those who are interested, Ballroom can be ordered through Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, and other such sources!
