Jacking, Jackin’, or the jack is a freestyle

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in which the dancer ripples their

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back and forth in an undulating motion. It emerged within the context of

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music in the 1980s.

Origins and interpretations

The style is said to have developed in

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nightclubs like the

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and the Power Plant, where house pioneer Frankie Knuckles was resident DJ, and Ron Hardy's Music Box, during the early 1980s.Tim Lawrence: Acid ⎯ Can You Jack?
(2005). Music journalist Simon Reynolds has argued that just as house music evolved from disco music (among other influences – see House music), jacking evolved from the expressiveness of disco dancing. Even more than disco, house music endorsed an “abandonment of subjectivity and self-will”, promoting the “ecstasy of being en''thrall''ed by the beat”. He sees jacking as a reflection of this abandonment of subjectivity: A similar account on the sexual content of jacking was suggested by Barry Walters in his 1986 article on house music in SPIN magazine: DJ and record producer Chip E. also explains the body movements in jacking with a reference to sexuality:

"Jackin' house" as a style of music

The terms "jacking", "jackin'", or "jack" found their way into numerous titles of early house music records, such as the ''Jack Trax'' EP by Chip E. (1985), "Jack'n the House" (1985) by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985), " Jack Your Body" by

Steve "Silk" Hurley Steve W. "Silk" Hurley (born November 9, 1962), also known as J. M. Silk (for "Jack Master Silk"), is an American club DJ, house music producer, and songwriter. From 1985 to 1988, he had four top-10 singles on the US Dance chart, including the ...

(1986), "

The Jack That House Built "The Jack That House Built" is a song by British house music act under the name of Jack 'N' Chill consisting of band members Edward "Ed" Stratton and Vlad Naslas. It was first released in June 1987 but failed to reach Top 40. It was re-released in ...

" by Jack 'n' Chill (1987), or "Jack to the Sound of the Underground" by Fast Eddie (1988). The term is also transferred to certain styles of house music called "Jackin' House".What is Jackin House? History and meaning of Jackin House
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References

External links

Sally R. Sommer: "C'mon to My House: Underground-House Dancing"
in: Dance Research Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2001, pp. 72–86.
Czarina Mirani: Spin Slide and Jack: A History of House Dancing
on

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, 2005.
Barry Walters: Burning Down the House
SPIN magazine, November 1986.
Tim Lawrence: Acid ⎯ Can You Jack?
Liner Notes to an acid house compilation, 2005
Makkada B. Selah: Powder Burns – Essay on house dance
in

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, 2007 {{Street dance 1980s fads and trends 1980s neologisms Culture of Chicago Dance moves Dances of the United States

Origins and interpretations

"Jackin' house" as a style of music

See also

References

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