Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. 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 and recorded dance music.
Many genres including:
- Folk dance music
- Historical dance music
- Electronic
1920s- Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920's. 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. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&B music which used lavish orchestral arrangments.
1970s- Disco
It was with the rise of disco in the early 1970s that dance music once again became popular with the public. In contrast to the 1920s, however, the use of live orchestras in night clubs was extremely rare due to its expense. DJ's 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.
Electronic dance music- 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 commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations, shows and raves.
Radio- The Hot Dance Airplay chart tracjs the most popular trascks played by radio stations using a "dance music" format. Dance music is also a part of the mix of related formats, such as rhythmic adult contemporary and rhythmic contemporary.
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