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May 14, 2014 · Through social media platforms (e.g., YouTube, Face book), twerking became an online phenomenon in 2013 among young people in many Western countries, but has yet to appear in any scholarly...
Aug 2, 2022 · The dance style’s high visibility in nightlife and underground culture has led to its association with debauchery, sex work, and the sex economy. For many women, especially Black women, twerking as a style of dance creates a cultural dissonance rooted in identity politics.
Jul 31, 2017 · Recent cultural appropriations of this African-American dance by mainstream media shows how twerking might be misjudged as trash and degrading for women. Confronting France and the United States in this topic allows a cultural and postcolonial understanding of big black butts.
- Lucille Toth
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Dec 22, 2023 · Twerking is a popular dance move that involves shaking and gyrating the hips in a sexually suggestive manner. While it has become a mainstream trend and is often seen in music videos and on social media, it’s important to understand the physical and sexual implications of twerking.
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Twerking is mainstream now ... but do you know where it came from? Superstar Lizzo traces booty shaking to a traditional West African dance and tells how Black women across generations kept the rhythm alive, from blues and jazz singers to modern rap and hip-hop performers.
Feb 2, 2024 · Using discourse analysis and autoethnographic research, I center twerking as a Black dance and a Black feminist practice. My research challenges omissions in communication studies, which has tended to overlook embodied practices as paths to liberation and contributes to scholarship in dance studies that amplifies the significance of Black women ...
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Nov 18, 2021 · Both women also agree that twerking has its roots in Africa and is a derivative of mapouka, an Ivorian dance born in the 1990s, and censored by the National Council for Audiovisual Communication (CNCA).
