Music for Waacking: A Journey Through Disco and House

Waacking is a relatively young street dance style, but it has already influenced many areas of street and music culture.

Originally, it was performed to funk music, and a little later to disco. This was the most popular club music, so it's no surprise that it became the accompaniment for this dance. It quickly became popular. People loved it for its unusual, parody-like movements. Anyone could dance it, and everyone could do it.

But people began to dislike disco, considering it music of debauchery and lust. Sometimes even actual protests were held against it, where records were symbolically burned.

This might also be because the vast majority of dancers waacking to these tracks were of non-traditional orientation, which possibly caused such outrage.

Later, the musical genre called house began to form. It was bright, electronic, and energetic music. House was created as an underground movement. It and waacking, which was gaining popularity at a rapid pace, immediately merged into an organic ensemble and began to develop together.

The unusual movements of waacking and the unconventional motifs of house music became a wonderful duet. This dance became an integral part of the culture of this musical genre. Together they started as part of the underground of American clubs and together began to emerge into the light, conquering the world with their uniqueness.

This musical genre had a wide influence on the development of club culture worldwide. It was recognized everywhere: in its home country, in Europe, and even in Russia. By the way, it was with the help of the invention of Russian (then Soviet) scientist Lev Sergeevich Termen that the first compositions of this world-exploding phenomenon were written. And it was they who began to actively develop and promote the club lifestyle in Russia (after the collapse of the USSR).

A major role in promoting waacking and house was played by the popular TV show 'Soul Train', which actively pushed underground culture into the mainstream. It also gave exposure to things like voguing, locking, popping, and vogue, with which the dance in the title of our article is very closely connected. It could even be said that they are not just connected, but gave birth to each other.

Thus, we can conclude that all American culture of that time (whether dance or music) closely interconnects many facets of young society's life. One can delve into this topic and history endlessly, and still find something new for oneself even today.