Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)
One of the songs we anticipate playing on repeat this summer is \u201cTwerkulator\u201d by Miami rap duo City Girls. It\u2019s a track with enough sonic energy to power a small town, but that\u2019s not all we dig. The song\u2019s music includes a chain of samples that stretch back through pop music history\u2014from 1990s house, to 1980s electro, to 1970s German krautrock\u2014and poses an implicit challenge to some of hip hop\u2019s most problematic figures. Meanwhile, the lyrics celebrate a tradition of movement that\u2019s as culturally important as its controversial\nTo break down the manifold cultural dimensions of twerking we welcome a very special guest: Kyra Gaunt, ethnomusicolgist and author of the forthcoming book \u201cTwerking at the Intersection of Music, Sexual Violence, and Patriarchy on YouTube,\u201d who explains why twerking is not what you think it is (and why the Oxford English Dictionary got it wrong).\nSongs Discussed\nCity Girls - Twerkulator, Twerk (featuring Cardi B)\nCajmere - Percolator\nAfrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock\nKraftwerk - Numbers, Trans-Europe Express\nJuicy J featuring A$AP Rocky - Scholarship\nMore\nDr. Kyra Gaunt's TED Talk and her brilliant book, The Games Black Girls Play\nEstelle Caswell's Video, "The Sound that Connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars"\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices