Twist

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became a worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity while drawing controversies from critics who felt it was too provocative.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Twist (dance)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Hochneder, Christa, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.