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Originally Posted by Lovey2
That is certainly your prerogative. In light of some of the comments, I did just research it and it does have origins in African Dance. However....it is not confined to African Americans. Look at any dance show, wedding reception...even at the squares....ALL races are twerking if the music supports it. It's just a current dance phenomenon and most young people will do it. An example...the Mambo and the cha cha originated in Cuba, but I see plenty of non-latinos doing both. It's a DANCE...that's all.
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Like you I also did some research. The NYT (Sept 2013) reports twerking came from the New Orleans music scene of the eighties. It goes on to say: " Twerking is a dance move typically associated with lower-income African-American women that involves the rapid gyration of the hips..." .Twerking (/ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ/; possibly from 'to work') is a type of dance that came out of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late 1980s. Individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women,[1][2] performers dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving throwing or thrusting their hips back or shaking their buttocks, often in a low squatting stance.[3] Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce".[4] Moves include "mixing", "exercising", the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", and "the wild wood"—all recognized as booty shaking or bounce.[5][6] Twerking is but one choreographic gesture within bounce.
As a tradition shaped by local aid and pleasure clubs, block parties and second lines,[7] the dance was central to "a historical situating of sissy bounce—bounce music as performed by artists from the New Orleans African-American community that [led to] a meteoric rise in popularity post-[Hurricane Katrina after 2005]."[8] In the 90s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture