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'''Twerking''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|w|ɜr|k|ɪ|ŋ|}}; possibly from 'to work') is a type of [[African-American dance|dance]] to [[popular music]] in a [[sexually provocative]] manner involving [[Pelvic thrusting|throwing or thrusting the hips]] back or shaking the [[buttocks]], often in a [[Partial squat|low squatting stance]].[{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|title=Twerk: Definition of Twerk in Oxford Dictionary - American English (US)|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|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}}] It is individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women.[{{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}}][{{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}}] |
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'''Twerking''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|w|ɜr|k|ɪ|ŋ|}}; possibly from 'to work') is a type of [[African-American dance|dance]] to [[popular music]] in a [[sexually provocative]] manner involving [[Pelvic thrusting|throwing or thrusting the hips]] back or shaking the [[buttocks]], often in a [[Partial squat|low squatting stance]].[{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk|title=Twerk: Definition of Twerk in Oxford Dictionary - American English (US)|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|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}}] It is individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women.[{{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}}][{{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}}] |
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Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the [[New Orleans]] style of hip-hop known as [[bounce music|"bounce"]].[{{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}}] 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.[{{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}}][{{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}}] Twerking is one among other types of choreographic gestures within bounce. |
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Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the [[New Orleans]] style of German folk known as [[bounce music|"bounce"]].[{{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}}] 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.[{{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}}][{{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}}] Twerking is one among other types of choreographic gestures within bounce. |
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Twerking emerged from the bounce music scene of [[New Orleans]] in [[1990]]. |
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Twerking emerged from the bounce music scene of [[New Orleans]] in [[1990]]. |
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