Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
One: ‘A Flood of Splendour’: Blackpool’s New Ballrooms
Two: Jazz, Ragtime and Tangoitis
Three: The Democratization of Dancing
Four: Basic Technique Takes Shape
Five: Dancing in Public
Six: Nightlife and Private Clubs
Seven: Hollywood Glamour
Eight: Everyday Glamour
Nine: Togetherness: Holiday Camps and Sequence Dancing
Ten: Jitterbug, Rock’n’Roll and Jive
Eleven: Latin, the 1960s and Change
Twelve: Television, Come Dancing and Peggy Spencer
Thirteen: The End of an Era
Fourteen: Twenty-First-Century Ballroom
Appendix: The Ten International style Ballroom and latin Dances
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index