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Twerking (/ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ/) is a type of dancing in which the dancer, usually a woman, shakes her hips in an up-and-down bouncing motion, causing the dancer's buttocks to shake, "wobble" and "jiggle".[1] According to the Oxford Dictionary Online, to twerk is "to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance".[2]

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A woman twerking

The word twerking is of uncertain origin. Possibilities include a contraction of "footwork", or a portmanteau of twist and jerk.[1]

Possible origins

Comparisons have been made with traditional African dances,[3] for instance the Mapouka from West Africa which was banned from the television of Ivory Coast due to its suggestive nature.[4] Twerking can carry both gendered and racialized connotations.[5]

In the United States, twerking was introduced into hip-hop culture by way of the New Orleans bounce music scene. In 1993, DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune "Do The Jubilee All" in which he chanted, "Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk."[6] The video for the song increased the popularity of twerking. In 1995 New Orleans-based rapper Cheeky Blakk recorded the song "Twerk Something!" a call-and-response dance song dedicated to twerking. In 1997 DJ Jubilee recorded "Get Ready, Ready" in which he encouraged listeners to "Twerk it!".

In 2013, twerk was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online.[7] The dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had tipped the scale when U.S. pop star Miley Cyrus gave a controversial and headline-producing twerking dance at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25, 2013.[7]

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Miley Cyrus twerking with Robin Thicke during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The performance was negatively received by the media.

Twerking received recognition in national releases at least as early as the year 2000, when the Atlanta-based hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins, released their debut single "Whistle While You Twurk", which received national airplay, peaking at #17 on the Hip Hop Chart and was further referenced in their 2002 follow-up release "Say I Yi Yi", which prominently features the lyrics "She got her hands up on her knees and her elbows on her thighs, she like to twerk and that's for certain I can tell that she fly". On the 2005 hit single "Check on It", as performed by Beyonce, she sings "Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight."[8] In 2006, a song titled "Pop, Lock & Drop It", by St. Louis rapper Huey, reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2011, a group of female dancers who call themselves the Twerk Team, who have posted many videos of themselves twerking on YouTube, were mentioned during the song "Round of Applause", by Atlanta-based rapper Waka Flocka Flame featuring Drake, in the line "Bounce that ass, shake that ass like the Twerk Team".[3] The 2012 single "Bandz A Make Her Dance", by Memphis-bred rapper Juicy J, has the lyric "Start twerking when she hear her song",[9] while French Montana of the Bronx, New York, questions the ability of a girl to twerk by asking "What you twerkin' with," in his respective 2012 single "Pop That", featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross.[10] The aforementioned songs, along with "Express Yourself" by Nicky Da B and Diplo, "Made twerking the most popular dance move since the Dougie".[11] In April 2013, Detroit rapper Danny Brown released a song titled "Express Yourself", inspired by American music producer Diplo's song of the same name. The song, produced by Boulder, Colorado-based producer Trampy, features a fast-paced electronic beat and is a composition about the popular dance craze twerking.[12] Brown dedicated the song "to all the ladies that like to turn up and have fun," in which he raps "Toes on the wall and her ass in the air / And she twerk that thing like she ain't have a care".[13][14]

In 2013, 33 students from Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, were suspended for using school equipment to make a twerking video on school grounds that was later uploaded to YouTube.[15][16]

In June 2013, veteran rapper Busta Rhymes of Brooklyn, New York, released a Jamaican dancehall-inspired single titled "Twerk It". The song features Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj, who has been featured on several other "twerking songs", including "Shakin' It 4 Daddy" by Robin Thicke, "Dance (A$$)" by Big Sean and "Clappers" by Wale. Minaj can be seen twerking in all three of the aforementioned songs' music videos. In August 2013, a song titled "Twerk", by Young Money recording artist Lil Twist, featuring American pop singers Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, leaked online.[17]

In August 2013, Juicy J has announced via Twitter, that he would give out a $50,000 scholarship for the girl who can twerk the best. The competition is inspired by the track "Scholarship" on his third album Stay Trippy, which contains the lyric "Keep twerking baby, might earn you a scholarship."[18] Also in September, "Twerk" from the MTV VMA show was named the Top Television Word of the Year (Teleword) of the 2012-1013 TV season by the Global Language Monitor."[19]


See also

References

  1. ^ a b Levy, Megan (December 14, 2012). "Do you know how to twerk? (Or even what it is?)". The Age. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
  2. ^ Twerk, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Retrieved August 28, 2013
  3. ^ a b Morgan, Glennisha. "Could 'Twerking' Possibly Be a New Way to Stay Fit?". Frugivore Magazine. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  4. ^ "Dance Has Africans Shaking Behinds, and Heads", Norimitsu Orishi, The New York Times, May 28, 2000
  5. ^ Megan Anne Todd, 2009 Getting Krump: Reading Choreographies of Cultural Desire Through an Afro-diasporic Dance, Ph.D. dissertation, 2009 University of Arizona. Ann Arbor: ProQuest/UMI, 2009 3357286.
  6. ^ Sarig, Roni (2007). Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing. Da Capo. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-306-81647-5.
  7. ^ a b "'Twerk,' 'selfie' added to Oxford dictionary". Fox News Channel. Associated Press. August 28, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
  8. ^ "Beyoncé – Check on It Lyrics". Rap Genius. November 11, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  9. ^ "Juicy J – Bands A Make Her Dance (Remix 2) Lyrics". RapGenius. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
  10. ^ "French Montana – Pop That Lyrics". RapGenius. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
  11. ^ Weiss, Jeff (December 28, 2012). "2012: The Year We All Got Ratchet". MTV Hive. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  12. ^ Zeichner, Naomi (April 5, 2013). "Danny Brown, "#ExpressYourself" (Prod. by Trampy) MP3". The Fader. The Fader, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  13. ^ "XDannyXBrownX: https://t.co/oUhH6G3ir2". Twitter. April 4, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2013. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  14. ^ "Danny Brown – Express Yourself Lyrics". Rap Genius. August 1, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  15. ^ "San Diego high school students suspended over sexually suggestive 'twerking' dance video". Daily News. New York. May 2, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  16. ^ Butler, Bethonie (May 6, 2013). "Twerking: What is it, and why did it get high school students suspended?". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  17. ^ "Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber team up for new song called Twerk". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  18. ^ "Twerk Hard and Earn a $50,000 College Scholarship Courtesy Of Juicy J". Time. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  19. ^ "'Twerk' Ranked Top TV Word of the Year". NBC San Diego. September 26, 2013.
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