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
  Victor Silvester
  Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE was an English dancer, author, musician and dance band leader. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century, and his records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s.- Early life...
  
  , 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
  Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
  The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing is a leading dance teaching and examination board based in London, England and operating internationally. Established on 25 July 1904 as the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, it changed to its current name in 1925 and is now a registered educational...
  
   (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
  Walter Laird
  Walter William Laird was a major influence in the development of Latin American dancing in Britain after the Second World War. He was World Professional Latin Dance Champion three times. He coached many successful dancers including Allan Tornsberg, Vibeke Toft, Espen Salberg, Jukka Haapalainen,...
  
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  • Technique of Latin Dancing
  • Technique of Latin Dancing Supplement

Basic Books for the American Style

• Matt Barber
  Matt Barber
  Matt Barber is an English film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He grew up in Hampshire, training classically as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral before receiving academic and music scholarships to Bradfield College, where he was head boy.Barber studied Classics and...
  
  , Beginning Ballroom: Why's, Do's, Don'ts, and Shoes. (2011). ISBN: 978-1-4535-5262-9
• 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
• Kaye Anderson "Fancy Dancing Series" 1992: Dance Action, PO Box 7162, Mesa, AZ 85216
  • Fancy Footwork: The Art of Round Dancing ISBN 0-9625895-3-5
  • Fancy Figures: Two-Step ISBN 0-9625895-1-9
  • Fancy Figures: Easy Level Waltz ISBN 0-9625895-2-7
  • Fancy Figures: Phase III Moderns (Foxtrot, Quickstep, Argentine Tango) ISBN 0-9625895-4-3
  • Fancy Figures: Phase III Latins (Cha Cha, Rumba, Mambo, Jive) ISBN 0-9625895-6-8

Partner and social dance research and scholarship

• Juliet E. McMains
  Juliet McMains
  Juliet E. McMains is the United States dance scholar and instructor, the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport....
  
   (2006) "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry" Wesleyan University Press
  Wesleyan University Press
  Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The Press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist...
  
  , ISBN 0819567744

  The first in-depth study of the American DanceSport

  DanceSport

  Dancesport denotes competitive ballroom dancing, as contrasted to social or exhibition dancing. It is wheelchair dancesport where at least one of the dancers is in a wheelchair....

  
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• Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004) "A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music", University Press of Mississippi
  University Press of Mississippi
  The University Press of Mississippi, founded in 1970, is a publisher that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi:*Alcorn State University*Delta State University*Jackson State University*Mississippi State University...
  
  , ISBN 1578066786

  About roles gender plays in creating and marketing the Country /Western musical and dance forms.