299:'''Twerking''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|w|ɜr|k|ɪ|ŋ|}}; possibly from 'to work') is a type of ] that emerged from the ] scene of ] in 1990,<ref name=Vendetti /> which has a broader origin among other types of dancing found among the ] that derives from ] ]ns of ].<ref name="Pérez" /> Individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women,<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Matt|title=Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans|date=2012|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|location=Boston}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811171214/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 11, 2012|title=Sissy Bounce, New Orleans's Gender-Bending Rap - NYTimes.com|date=August 11, 2012|access-date=June 30, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Dee|first1=Jonathan}}</ref> performers dance to ] in a ] manner involving ] back or shaking their ], often in a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|title=Twerk: Definition of Twerk in Oxford Dictionary - American English (US)|work=]|publisher=]|access-date=December 11, 2013|archive-date=August 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808194043/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|url-status=dead}}</ref> Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the ] style of hip-hop known as "bounce".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wheretheyatnola.com/|title=Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures. Aubrey Edwards and Alison Fensterstock. New Orleans 2010.|website=www.wheretheyatnola.com|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612102656/http://wheretheyatnola.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Moves include "mixing", "exercising", the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", "the sleeper" and "the wild wood"—all recognized as '''booty shaking''' or '''bounce'''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fuse.tv/2013/11/big-freedia-best-non-twerk-dances|title=Peter Pan and Bending Over: Big Freedia's 5 Best Non-Twerk Dances|work=Fuse|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=April 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419085537/https://www.fuse.tv/2013/11/big-freedia-best-non-twerk-dances|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Fuse|title=Big Freedia on New Orleans Bounce Music & Inventing New Dance Moves|date=October 9, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Lf90zwk4o|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=May 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514172855/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Lf90zwk4o|url-status=live}}</ref> Twerking is one among other types of choreographic gestures within bounce.
292:'''Twerking''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|w|ɜr|k|ɪ|ŋ|}}; possibly from 'to work') is a type of ] that emerged from the ] scene of ] in 1990,<ref name=Vendetti /> which has a broader origin among other types of dancing found among the ] that derives from ] ]ns of ].<ref name="Pérez" /> Individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women,<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Matt|title=Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans|date=2012|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|location=Boston}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811171214/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 11, 2012|title=Sissy Bounce, New Orleans's Gender-Bending Rap - NYTimes.com|date=August 11, 2012|access-date=June 30, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Dee|first1=Jonathan}}</ref> performers dance to ] in a ] manner involving ] back or shaking their ], often in a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|title=Twerk: Definition of Twerk in Oxford Dictionary - American English (US)|work=]|publisher=]|access-date=December 11, 2013|archive-date=August 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808194043/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|url-status=dead}}</ref> Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the ] style of hip-hop known as "bounce".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wheretheyatnola.com/|title=Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures. Aubrey Edwards and Alison Fensterstock. New Orleans 2010.|website=www.wheretheyatnola.com|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612102656/http://wheretheyatnola.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Moves include "mixing", "exercising", the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", "the sleeper" and "the wild wood"—all recognized as '''booty shaking''' or '''bounce'''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fuse.tv/2013/11/big-freedia-best-non-twerk-dances|title=Peter Pan and Bending Over: Big Freedia's 5 Best Non-Twerk Dances|work=Fuse|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=April 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419085537/https://www.fuse.tv/2013/11/big-freedia-best-non-twerk-dances|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Fuse|title=Big Freedia on New Orleans Bounce Music & Inventing New Dance Moves|date=October 9, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Lf90zwk4o|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=May 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514172855/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Lf90zwk4o|url-status=live}}</ref> Twerking is one among other types of choreographic gestures within bounce.
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Orleans ] community that a meteoric rise in popularity post-{{bracket|] after 2005}}."<ref name="Miller 2008">{{Cite journal|last=Matt|first=Miller|date=2008|title=Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007|journal=Southern Spaces|url=https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997%E2%80%932007|volume=2008|doi=10.18737/M78P5T|doi-access=free|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=July 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705164334/https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997%e2%80%932007|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1990s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture throughout the hip-hop/rap region known as ], including ], Memphis, ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Holly 2012"/><ref name="Miller 2008"/> In 2013, it became the top "what is" search on the ] search engine<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/twerking-2013-google-search-rankings|title=Twerking dances its way into 2013 Google search rankings|last=Hern|first=Alex|date=December 17, 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 30, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=August 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815062226/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/twerking-2013-google-search-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref> following pop artist ] performing the dance at the ].<ref name="Cyrus" />
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Orleans ] community that a meteoric rise in popularity post-{{bracket|] after 2005}}."<ref name="Miller 2008">{{Cite journal|last=Matt|first=Miller|date=2008|title=Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007|journal=Southern Spaces|url=https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997%E2%80%932007|volume=2008|doi=10.18737/M78P5T|doi-access=free|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=July 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705164334/https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997%e2%80%932007|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1990s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture throughout the hip-hop/rap region known as ], including ], Memphis, ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Holly 2012"/><ref name="Miller 2008"/> In 2013, it became the top "what is" search on the ] search engine<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/twerking-2013-google-search-rankings|title=Twerking dances its way into 2013 Google search rankings|last=Hern|first=Alex|date=December 17, 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 30, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=August 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815062226/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/twerking-2013-google-search-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref> following pop artist ] performing the dance at the ].<ref name="Cyrus" />
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2435:"Twerking–A Brief History | The Vast World of Dance"
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3822:"Is Taylor Swift's video for Shake It Off racist?"
3739:"Glee Recap: Twerking, Moles, and 'Blurred Lines'"
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2123:"Do you know how to twerk? (Or even what it is?)"
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2859:"Top Iggy Azalea Twerking Moments"
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2408:Pinheiro, Ester (June 13, 2021).
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3653:"Beth Behrs Twerks the DJ Stand"
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2598:Hern, Alex (December 17, 2013).
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2086:Journal of Popular Music Studies
2055:"What is the origin of 'twerk'?"
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2740:"Cardi B Chart History"
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2803:Frugivore Magazine
2543:Miley Cyrus Twerk.
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1483:Shake It Off
1479:Taylor Swift
1476:
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4508:Headbanging
4319:House dance
4284:Stanky Legg
4274:Running man
4249:Laffy Taffy
4162:Power moves
4055:Stick dance
4040:Set de flo'
3826:Metro.co.uk
2393:October 22,
2363:October 22,
2288:HypheNation
2234:November 3,
2065:December 1,
1512:Belly dance
1464:Give It 2 U
1448:Miley Cyrus
1376:Webby Award
1353:Stay Trippy
1341:Ray Donovan
1322:Miley Cyrus
1312:'s single "
1306:Get Like Me
1304:'s single "
1274:Nicki Minaj
1256:'s single "
1246:Danny Brown
1168:Bubble Butt
1146:Mollie King
1111:Miley Cyrus
1104:Anders Holm
1099:Workaholics
1094:Iggy Azalea
1038:Nicki Minaj
928:Miley Cyrus
917:Check on It
894:Say I Yi Yi
811:Twerk dance
788:Mess Around
582:New Orleans
514:Miley Cyrus
492:, Memphis,
490:New Orleans
446:New Orleans
407:New Orleans
243:Next edit →
46:Next edit →
4573:Categories
4496:Folk dance
4466:Air guitar
4433:Charleston
4420:Jazz dance
4400:Rebolation
4375:Industrial
4370:Hard dance
4352:Rave dance
4194:Crank That
4030:Juba dance
3973:Buck dance
3867:August 21,
3836:August 21,
3319:October 5,
2724:January 8,
1694:5996660442
1594:References
1567:Sandungueo
1391:Beth Behrs
1258:Pour It Up
1088:featuring
1049:City Girls
861:Pour It Up
753:Precursors
734:jazz dance
720:-speaking
686:liberatory
682:plantation
594:Funkadelic
590:DJ Jubilee
4448:Tap dance
4438:Lindy Hop
4395:Para Para
4380:Jumpstyle
4234:John Wall
4199:Crip Walk
4184:Cat Daddy
4174:Bird Walk
4065:Tap dance
4045:Slow drag
4035:Lindy Hop
4018:Strutting
3857:Salon.com
3229:April 27,
3218:The Fader
3196:April 13,
3170:April 13,
2925:April 14,
2813:April 12,
2754:April 30,
2744:Billboard
2444:April 29,
2419:April 29,
2108:1533-1598
1995:0261-3077
1702:147153935
1686:1752-8631
1636:March 22,
1522:Daggering
1318:Lil Twist
1266:dancehall
1234:rap music
1221:Billboard
1216:Billboard
1132:Billboard
1061:Billboard
1042:Billboard
1022:Rick Ross
1018:Lil Wayne
993:Billboard
974:Timbaland
958:Billboard
886:Billboard
780:the Shake
768:P-Popping
628:thrusting
549:Etymology
462:local aid
405:scene of
4609:Buttocks
4558:Waacking
4533:Pantsula
4523:Moonwalk
4513:Grinding
4501:Clogging
4481:Capoeira
4428:Cakewalk
4410:X-Outing
4327:Footwork
4289:Twerking
4244:Krumping
4169:Boogaloo
4152:Downrock
4050:Stepping
4013:Boogaloo
3993:Get down
3978:Cakewalk
3861:Archived
3830:Archived
3799:Archived
3775:July 12,
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3717:Archived
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2665:Archived
2645:July 12,
2639:Archived
2614:June 25,
2608:Archived
2577:Archived
2573:Fox News
2554:June 25,
2548:archived
2519:Archived
2493:Archived
2462:and the
2387:Archived
2357:Archived
2352:BBC News
2331:June 25,
2325:Archived
2258:Archived
2228:Archived
2189:Archived
2169:June 30,
2163:Archived
2159:BBC News
2133:Archived
2033:Archived
2029:CBS News
2005:June 30,
1999:Archived
1966:June 30,
1960:Archived
1918:June 30,
1912:Archived
1871:June 30,
1865:archived
1842:June 30,
1836:Archived
1812:June 30,
1806:Archived
1746:June 30,
1630:Archived
1587:'upa'upa
1552:Ndombolo
1532:Grinding
1500:See also
1337:Showtime
1294:Clappers
1290:Big Sean
1270:Twerk It
1211:hashtags
1188:Shade 45
1176:Shade 45
1115:Facebook
1034:Anaconda
1014:Pop That
966:SexyBack
932:Facebook
859:’s 2013
851:'s 2005
843:’s 2003
835:’s 2001
824:such as
712:and the
710:candombe
702:Atlantic
644:buttocks
536:(video)
438:buttocks
418:Africans
363:Twerking
185:contribs
175:Smalljim
144:Reverted
70:Wikitext
4518:Moshing
4491:Flexing
4405:Wu-tang
4337:Jacking
4309:Wu-tang
4294:Turfing
4264:Popping
4259:Locking
4239:Jerkin'
4157:Freezes
4147:Toprock
4129:Hip-hop
4023:Popping
4008:Locking
3903:at the
3456:YouTube
3262:Twitter
2474:YouTube
2305:May 22,
2264:May 22,
2195:May 14,
2128:The Age
1572:Soukous
1542:Mapouka
1537:Malayah
1462:" and "
1413:of the
1383:MTV VMA
1348:Twitter
1314:I'm Out
1254:Rihanna
1199:Twitter
1142:YouTube
1134:Hot 100
1127:J. Dash
1119:unicorn
1078:YouTube
1074:Atlanta
1057:Cardi B
1006:Juicy J
995:Hot 100
913:Beyoncé
857:Rihanna
841:Beyoncé
826:YouTube
802:in the
706:batuque
609:Lil Jon
607:rapper
605:Atlanta
572:" (or "
568:" and "
553:A 2013
506:Houston
502:Atlanta
253:Line 5:
250:Line 5:
231:Twinkle
4476:Budots
4471:Azonto
4365:Hakken
4332:Hustle
4299:Uprock
4214:Dougie
4137:2 step
3805:May 3,
2915:Fusion
2783:May 6,
2499:May 8,
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1557:'ote'a
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1328:, was
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960:charts
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849:Eminem
786:, the
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782:, the
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724:– are
722:slaves
675:mapalé
657:Origin
574:twitch
559:bounce
510:Google
504:, and
455:bounce
201:94,142
81:Inline
63:Visual
4553:Tango
4548:Gwoka
4543:Salsa
4458:Other
4443:Swing
4342:Vogue
4269:Robot
4070:Vogue
4060:Swing
3250:Tweet
2299:(PDF)
2284:(PDF)
1698:S2CID
1466:" by
1358:viral
1310:Ciara
1302:Nelly
1296:" by
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1288:" by
1280:" by
1138:viral
1125:" by
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1084:" by
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1036:" by
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1004:" by
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738:grind
714:bongo
667:Black
566:twist
498:Miami
466:clubs
428:in a
399:dance
203:edits
4538:Pogo
3884:Time
3869:2014
3838:2014
3807:2019
3777:2014
3751:2014
3725:2014
3695:2014
3665:2014
3639:2014
3613:2014
3587:2020
3557:2014
3530:2020
3499:2013
3487:Time
3469:2017
3437:2017
3405:2013
3373:2014
3347:2014
3321:2013
3288:2013
3258:2013
3231:2013
3198:2014
3172:2014
3139:2014
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3009:2014
2979:2014
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2927:2014
2897:2014
2871:2014
2845:2014
2815:2013
2785:2019
2756:2019
2726:2013
2699:2012
2673:2012
2647:2014
2616:2016
2585:2013
2556:2016
2527:2013
2501:2019
2446:2023
2421:2023
2395:2021
2365:2021
2333:2016
2307:2016
2266:2016
2254:Fuse
2236:2020
2218:ISBN
2197:2019
2171:2017
2141:2012
2104:ISSN
2067:2014
2041:2013
2007:2017
1991:ISSN
1968:2017
1946:2008
1920:2017
1898:2012
1873:2017
1844:2017
1832:Fuse
1814:2017
1784:2013
1748:2017
1690:OCLC
1682:ISSN
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