Praising twerk
Why aren’t we all shaking our butt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12244653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucille Toth (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-302 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957155817710427 |
| OpenAlex | W2741104803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
‘To twerk is to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squat stance.’ But twerking is also about redefining whiteness in a queered millennial era. 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
Aesthetics · African american · Art · Dance · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |