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Dance music is music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

e music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
es, the tango
Tango music

Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta t?pica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons....
, the bolero
Bolero

Bolero is a name given to certain slow, romantic latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish people and Cuban forms, which are both significant, and which have separate origins....
, the can-can
Can-can

The can-can is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s....
, minuet
Minuet

A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of France origin for two persons, usually in time signature. The word was adapted from Italian language minuetto and French language menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musi...
s, salsa
Salsa music

Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
, various kinds of jig
Jig

The jig is a folk dance as well as the accompanying dance tune , popular in Ireland. The jig derives its name from the French language word gigue, meaning small fiddle, or giga, the Italian language name of a short piece of music popular in the Middle Ages....
s and the breakdown.






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Dance music is music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

Genres

Dance music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
es, the tango
Tango music

Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta t?pica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons....
, the bolero
Bolero

Bolero is a name given to certain slow, romantic latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish people and Cuban forms, which are both significant, and which have separate origins....
, the can-can
Can-can

The can-can is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s....
, minuet
Minuet

A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of France origin for two persons, usually in time signature. The word was adapted from Italian language minuetto and French language menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musi...
s, salsa
Salsa music

Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
, various kinds of jig
Jig

The jig is a folk dance as well as the accompanying dance tune , popular in Ireland. The jig derives its name from the French language word gigue, meaning small fiddle, or giga, the Italian language name of a short piece of music popular in the Middle Ages....
s and the breakdown. Other dance forms include contradance, the merengue (Dominican Republic), and the cha-cha-cha
Cha-cha-cha (dance)

Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....
. Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the name of the dance.

Ballad
Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the nineteenth century and used extensively across Europe and later north America, Australia and north Africa....
s are commonly chosen for slow-dance routines. However ballads have been commonly deemed as the opposite of dance music in terms of their tempo. Originally, the ballad was a type of dance as well (hence the name "ballad," from the same root as "ballroom
Ballroom

A ballroom is a large room inside a building, the designated purpose of which is holding formal dances called ball s. Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions contain one or more ballrooms....
" and "ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
"). Ballads are still danced on the Faeroe Islands.

Folk dance music

Dance music includes various traditional dance music such as Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music session

Irish traditional music sessions are mostly-informal gatherings at which people play Folk music of Ireland. The Irish language word for "session" is seisi?n....
, waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
es, rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 and tango
Tango music

Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta t?pica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons....
s. An example of traditional dance music in the United States is the old-time music
Old-time music

Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk music of many countries, including England, Scotland, Ireland and Africa....
 played at square dance
Square dance

The various square dance movements are based on the steps and figures used in traditional folk dances and social dances of the various people who migrated to the USA....
s and contra dance
Contra dance

Contra dance refers to several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Contra dances can be found around the world, though they are especially popular in the United States....
s. Brazilian dance music includes Samba, Pagode and Forró.

Historical dance music

While the combination of dance and music is very ancient (for example Ancient Greek vases
Pottery of Ancient Greece

Thanks to its relative durability, pottery is a large part of the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because we have so much of it it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society....
 sometimes show dancers accompanied by musicians) the earliest Western dance music that we can still play with a degree of certainty are the surviving medieval
Medieval music

The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century....
 dances
Medieval dance

Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some depictions in paintings and illumination s, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts....
 such as caroles
Carol (music)

A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character....
 and the Estampie
Estampie

The medieval dance and Music genre called the estampie in French language, the estampida in Occitan, and istampitta in Italian language was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries....
. The earliest of these surviving dances are almost as old as Western staff-based music notation.

In the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 period, the major dance styles were noble court
Noble court

A royal or noble court, as an instrument of government broader than a court, comprises an extended household centred on a patron whose rule may govern law or be governed by it....
 dances (see Baroque dance
Baroque dance

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era in Europe , closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera....
). Examples of dances include the French courante
Courante

The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are just some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque....
, sarabande
Sarabande

In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of crotchets and minims in alternation....
, minuet
Minuet

A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of France origin for two persons, usually in time signature. The word was adapted from Italian language minuetto and French language menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musi...
 and gigue
Gigue

The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the British jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century and usually appears at the end of a suite....
. Collections of dances were often collected together as dance suites
Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
.

In the Classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement
Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession....
 in four-movement non-vocal works such as sonatas, string quartet
String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments — usually two violins, a viola and cello — or a piece written to be performed by such a group....
s, and symphonies
Symphony

A symphony is a musical composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. "Symphony" does not imply a specific form. Many symphonies are tonality works in four movement with the first in sonata form, and this is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "Classical period " symphony, although even some symphonies by the ac...
, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
 also arose later in the Classical era, as the minuet evolved into the scherzo
Scherzo

A scherzo is a piece of music or a movement, in a certain style, that forms part of a larger piece such as a symphony. The word "scherzo" means "joke" in Italian language....
 (literally, "joke"; a faster-paced minuet).

Both remained part of the Romantic music
Romantic music

In music, romanticism is a term, often considered misleading, and concept derived from literature traditionally defined by attributes including, "interest in nature, medieval chivalry, mysticism, [and] remoteness [ Social alienation and Solitude]"....
 period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle
Barcarolle

A barcarolle is a folk song sung by Venice gondola, or a piece of music composed in that style. In European classical music, the three most famous barcarolles are those by Jacques Offenbach, from his opera Tales of Hoffmann, Fr?d?ric Chopin's Barcarolle for solo piano, and guitarist Agustin Barrios's Julia Florida....
, mazurka
Mazurka

A mazurka is a stylized Poland folk dance in triple meter with a lively tempo that has a heavy Accent on the third or second Beat . Its folk origins are the slow kujawiak and the fast oberek....
, and polonaise
Polonaise

The polonaise , known colloquially as the Bismarck, is a slow dance of Poland origin, in 3/4 time. Its name is French language for "Polish." The Dynamics alla polacca on a score indicates that the piece should be played with the rhythm and character of a polonaise ....
. Also in the Romantic music era, the growth and development of ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
 extended the composition of dance music to a new height. Frequently dance music was a part of Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
.

1920s dance music


Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920s. Night clubs were frequented by large numbers of people at which a form of jazz, which was characterized by fancy orchestras with strings instruments and complex arrangements, became the standard music at clubs. A particularly popular dance was the fox-trot. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&B music which used lavish orchestral arrangements.

1970s disco

It was with the rise of disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
 in the early 1970s that dance music once again became popular with the public. Disco was characterized by the use of real orchestral instruments, such as strings, which had largely been abandoned during the 1950s because of rock music. In contrast to the 1920s, however, the use of live orchestras in night clubs was extremely rare due to its expense. Disc jockey
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
s (commonly known as DJs) played recorded music at these new clubs. The disco craze reached its peaked in the late 1970s when the word disco became synonymous with "dance music" and nightclubs were referred to as discos. The year 1980 was characterized by a lack of dance music as artists rushed on the rock bandwagon in an attempt to continue their careers.

Electronic

By 1981, a new form of electronic dance music was developing which would gradually take the place of disco. This music, made using electronics, is a style of popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 commonly played in dance music nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
s, radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
s, shows
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
 and rave
Rave

A rave is a term in use since the 1980s, to describe dance party with fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties disc jockeys and other performers play Electronica, Trance music, and Techno ,...
s. During its gradual decline in the late 1970s, disco became influenced by computerization. Looping
Music loop

In electronic music, a loop is a sampling which is repeated. Loops may be repeated through the use of tape loops, delay effects, cutting between two record players, sampling , a Sampler or with the aid of Computer Based Looping Software....
, sampling
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 and seguing
Segue

A segue is a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next....
 as found in disco continued to be used as creative techniques within Trance music
Trance music

Trance is a style of electronic dance music developed in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 beats per minute, melodic synthesizer phrase , and a musical form that is progressive as it builds up and down throughout a track....
, Techno music, and House music
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
.

Electronic dance music experienced a boom after the proliferation of personal computer
Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
s in the 1980s, manifest in the dance element of Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson

Anthony Howard Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson , was an England record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC....
's Haçienda
Hacienda

Hacienda is a Spanish language word for an estate, usually, but not always, a vast ranch. Some haciendas were plantations, mines, or even factories....
 scene (in Manchester), and the Summer Of Love in Ibiza
Ibiza

Ibiza is an island and town located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands autonomous community ....
, which became the European capital of house and trance. Clubs like Sundissential
Sundissential

Sundissential is a dance music club started in Birmingham, England, in the 1990s. Originally hosted in various venues in the city, the event started as an after normal club hours event and exploited loopholes in Licensing laws of the United Kingdom to allow alcohol to be sold on a Sunday to clubbers at this time....
 and Manumission
Manumission

Manumission is the act of freeing individual Slavery, done at the will of the owner....
 became household names with British, German and Italian tourists.

Many music genres that made use of electronic instruments developed into contemporary styles mainly due to the MIDI protocol, which enabled computers, synthesizers, sound card
Sound card

A sound card is a computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of sound to/from a computer under control of computer programs....
s, samplers, and drum machines to interact with each other and achieve the full synchronization of sounds. Electronic dance music is typically composed using computers and synthesizers, and rarely has any physical instruments
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
. Instead, this is replaced by digital
Digital

A digital system uses discrete values, usually but not always symbolized numerically to represent information for input, processing, transmission, storage, etc....
 or electronic
Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. In contrast, the term electric instrument is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified or altered electronically - for example an electric guitar....
 sounds, with a 4/4 beat. Dance music typically ranges from 120bpm, up to 200bpm (Hip Hop in comparison usually plays at a speed of 80 to 100bpm), with techno
Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988....
, trance
Trance music

Trance is a style of electronic dance music developed in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 beats per minute, melodic synthesizer phrase , and a musical form that is progressive as it builds up and down throughout a track....
, and house
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
 being the most widespread. Many producers of this kind of music however, such as Darren Tate
Darren Tate

Darren Tate is an record producer and club Disc jockey....
 and MJ Cole, were trained in classical music before they moved into the electronic medium.

Associated with dance music are usually commercial tracks that may not easily be categorized, such as "The Power" by Snap!
Snap!

Snap! is an electronic music group formed in 1989 by Germany Record producer Michael M?nzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, but was most successful when fronted by rapper Turbo B, who performed on the UK number 1 singles "The Power " and "Rhythm Is a Dancer"....
 and "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

"Gonna Make You Sweat " was C+C Music Factory's first hit. It was released in late 1990 in many countries and achieved a great success in U.S., Austria, Germany and Switzerland where it reached #1 on the charts....
" by C+C Music Factory
C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop music crossover hit record, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat " reached #1 on Billboard Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs single record chart....
, but the term "dance music" is applied to many forms of electronic music, both commercial and non commercial.

Some of the most popular upbeat genres includes House
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
, Techno
Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988....
, Drum & Bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
, Jungle
Oldschool jungle

Oldschool jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno music, rare groove and reggae/Dub music/dancehall....
, Hardcore
Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK....
, Electronica
Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing....
, Industrial
Industrial music

Industrial music comprises many styles of experimental music, including many forms of electronic music. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists....
, Breakbeat
Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a term used to describe a collection of sub-music genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern ....
, Trance
Trance music

Trance is a style of electronic dance music developed in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 beats per minute, melodic synthesizer phrase , and a musical form that is progressive as it builds up and down throughout a track....
, Psychedelic Trance
Psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and mesmerizing melodies....
, UK Garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
, and Electro. There are also much slower styles, such as Downtempo
Downtempo

Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a rhythm or Groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music....
, Chillout
Chill out music

Chill out , a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene....
 and Nu Jazz
Nu jazz

Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul music, electronic dance music, and free improvisation....
.

Many sub-genres of electronic dance music have evolved. Sub-genres of House
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
 include Acid House
Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance music-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics....
, Hard House, Funky House
Funky house

Funky house is a loose definition for a commercially orientated, disco influenced subgenre of house music. Like most varieties of house, the genre follows a traditional four to the floor house beat, and makes heavy use of synthesizers, samples and soulful vocals, though instrumental tracks are also common....
, Deep House
Deep house

Deep house is a style of house music which fuses elements of Chicago house, disco, 80's soul, jazz-funk and Detroit techno. The Jazz influences of deep house are most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bar s, which give the tracks a slightly Consonance and dissonance feel....
, Tribal House
Tribal house

Tribal house is a form of electronic dance music derived from house music but being highly drum-centric and often without a core melody....
, Dark House
Dark house

Dark house is the name used by some people to describe certain progressive house records that are characterised by deep penetrating lowtempo beats and the use of words and sounds that create a foreboding atmosphere....
, Hip House
Hip house

Hip house, also known as house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and Hip hop music. The style rose to prominence during the 1980s in New York and Chicago....
, Tech House
Tech house

Tech house, like progressive house, represents a fusion of house music and techno. However, whereas progressive house tends to incorporate atmospheric, ethereal, almost ambient music sounds and is often mixed to varying degrees with trance music and progressive trance, tech-house tends to have more in common with soulful deep house, tradition...
 and US Garage. Sub-genres of Drum & Bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
 include Tech Step
Techstep

Techstep is a subgenre of drum and bass that was popular in the late 1990s....
, Hard Step
Hardstep

Hardstep is a subgenre of drum and bass which emerged in 1994. It is characterised by a gritty production style, that has a in inner-city feel to it....
, Jump Up, Intelligent D&B/Atmospheric D&B
Intelligent drum and bass

Intelligent drum and bass is the widespread term for the subgenre of drum and bass emphasising influences from lounge music jazz and ambient music....
, Liquid Funk
Liquid funk

Liquid funk is a sub-genre of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers , harmonies, and ambience, producing a calmer atmosphere directed at both home listeners and nightclub audiences....
, Sambass
Sambass

Sambass, Drum 'n' Bossa or drum 'n' sambass is a regional sub-genre of drum and bass music mostly native to Brazil, which combines drum and bass rhythms with influences from Latin American music....
, Drum Funk
Drumfunk

Drumfunk is a subgenre of drum & bass sometimes referred to as "edits" or "choppage". The term came into widespread use ca. 2000, when drumfunk itself began to expand....
, Neuro Funk
Neurofunk

Neurofunk is a subgenre of drum and bass pioneered by Music producer Ed Rush, Optical and Matrix , between 1997 and 1998 in London, England as a Progressive dance music of techstep....
 and Ragga Jungle
Ragga jungle

Ragga jungle is the type of music that emerged circa 1989-1990 and is initially heavily based on production of Rebel MC . Early pioneers of the genre also include Leenie De Ice and Ragga Twins....
. Sub-genres of other styles include Progressive Breaks, Rave Breaks
Rave Breaks

Rave breaks is a genre aiming to incorporate and combine elements of old skool rave music with modern breaks. The music is largely composed of a simple breakbeat, intense bassline sounds, melodic piano lines, staccato synthesizer riffs, and vocals....
, Booty Bass
Booty bass

The term booty bass can refer to several different, loosely related genres of music.*Miami bass - largely based in Miami, Florida and elsewhere in Florida....
, Goa Trance
Goa trance

Goa Trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India....
, Euro Trance
Euro-Trance

Euro-Trance is used to describe all the "trance music"-like European imports for the UK market, especially those recorded in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium....
, Hard Trance
Hard trance

Hard Trance is a genre of music that originated in Germany in the early to mid-90's and is one of the earliest forms of trance music. It was one of the most common forms of Trance throughout the decade, characterized by strong kicks, with a very dry and heavy sound....
, Hardstyle
Hardstyle

Hardstyle is a music genre consisting of influences from trance , Hardcore house and Rave . Hardstyle is a subgenre of Hard Dance Music. The average tempo is between 135 and 160 bpm , however, hardstyle djs are known to go for unique tempo....
, Minimal Techno
Minimal techno

Minimal techno is a form of electronic dance music that is considered a minimalism sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development....
, Gabber Techno
Gabber

Gabber , gabba or hardcore dance music, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" literally means "buddy" or "friend"....
, Breakcore
Breakcore

Breakcore is an electronic music style that brings together elements of Industrial music, jungle music, hardcore techno and Intelligent dance music into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density....
, Broken Beat
Broken beat

Broken beat is an electronic music genre which can be characterized by Syncopation typically in Metre , with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps....
, Trip Hop
Trip hop

Trip hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop music and house music scenes....
, Folktronica
Folktronica

Folktronica or Electrofolk is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica....
 and Glitch
Glitch

A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature....
. Speed Garage
Speed garage

Speed garage is a type of music, associated with UK garage and hard dance scenes....
, Breakstep
Breakstep

Breakstep, or breakbeat garage, is a type of music that evolved from the UK garage scene music and influenced the emergence of dubstep.Breakstep evolved from the 2-step garage sound....
, Bassline
Bassline house

Bassline is a type of music related to UK garage that originated from speed garage, and shares characteristics with fellow subgenres dubstep and grime for their emphasis on bass ....
, Grime and the Reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
-inspired Dubstep
Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic music that has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass ....
 are all sub-genres of UK Garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
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Dansband

See main article: Dansband
Dansband

Dansband is a term in Swedish language which describes musical ensemble playing a kind of popular music, dansbandsmusik . Dansbandsmusik is often danced to in partner dance....
"Dansband" ("Dance band") is a term in Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
 for bands who play a kind of popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
, "dansbandsmusik" ("Dance band music"), to partner dance
Partner dance

Partner dances are the dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to solo dance dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to Group dance dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner....
 to. These terms came into use around 1970, and before that, many of the bands were classified as "pop groups
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
". This type of music is mostly popular in the Nordic countries
Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
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Radio


The Hot Dance Airplay
Hot Dance Airplay

Hot Dance Airplay is a monitored dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart was also featured in its sister publication R&R , but it has since been removed, although a summary is still featured in the chart highlight section....
 chart tracks the most popular tracks played by radio stations using a "dance music" format
List of music radio formats

Music radio formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many speciality formats. Many of the following radio formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio....
. Dance music is also part of the mix of related formats, such as rhythmic adult contemporary
Rhythmic Adult Contemporary

Rhythmic adult contemporary is a format used on stations in the United States and Canada. Like many adult contemporary radio stations, rhythmic AC stations often would not play rap music....
 and rhythmic contemporary
Rhythmic Contemporary

Rhythmic contemporary, also known as rhythmic top 40, rhythmic contemporary hit radio or rhythmic crossover, is a music radio format that includes a mix of electronic dance music, upbeat rhythmic Pop music, Hip hop music and R&B hits....
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Dance clubs


The Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play

Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. nightclubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."...
 chart tracks which songs are currently most popular in nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
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See also

  • List of ballroom and social dance albums
    List of ballroom and social dance albums

    This article lists of ballroom dance and social dance albums.Most of them are specifically compiled with the aim of ballroom/social dancing, but some authored albums which are commonly considered highly danceable are included here as well....
  • Competitive dance
    Competitive dance

    Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles?such as acro dance, ballet, jazz dance, hip-hop dance, lyrical dance, and tap dance?before a common group of judges....
     music