BODY SHAKING

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TWERKING
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The Shake was a fad dance of mid-1960s, characteristic of "tense jerkiness" of
limbs and head shaking, basically with no particular danced moves or steps.
It superseded the twist in popularity by 1965. It was an individualistic dance, with
no steps, legs trembling, arms arbitrarily gesticulating and head shaking. No
partner was necessary. It was part of the "mod" subculture. It evolved from the 
blue beat style and was danced under the loud and hypnotic music of 
rhythm and blues typified by Chuck Berry. Frances Rust cites a description by a
contemporary who mentioned "feeling like being very drunk" under in influence of
the ostinato beat of the electric guitar, as an anecdotal support for research of the
influence of music on central nervous system.
The central theme from the British TV series The Avengers is based on 
The Shake LP (1965) by Laurie Johnson, which capitalized on the dance craze of
the time.
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 TWERKING
Twerking 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, 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. Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the
New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce"] 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. Twerking is but one
choreographic gesture within bounce.
As a tradition shaped by local aid and pleasure clubs, block parties and second lines, 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]." In the 90s, twerking had widespread appeal
in black party culture throughout the hip-hop/rap region known as The Dirty South,
including New Orleans, Memphis, Virginia Beach, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. In 2013, it
became the top "what is" search on the Google search engine following pop artist 
Miley Cyrus performing the dance at the MTV Video Music Awards
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