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This page now reflects the modern club genre rather than the traditional accompanyment.. and so needs writing!. my personal opinion is that it ought to share similar content to electronic music (but briefer with link to main article) but with a bit about other 'club music' forms such as the sections of rnb or even hip hop which are played in clubs; to reflect the common categorisation of these styles of music into dance music. anyway i'm no expert so someone needs to step up..~bungalowbill
Wathiik 15:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
East African and West African dance influenced the world. Later, black slave music and dance created American Gospel, RnB, Blues, Soul. Soul, House, RnB, and garage and hip hop were the original that Disco, EDM and Pop was created from. Could someone confirm then edit the article? -- 2604:2000:DDC7:1700:F432:8FC5:7FC1:C63B ( talk) 12:09, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Well in my school, Dance music is a broad term for electronic music (trance, house etc.)
This page needs some major editing - a discussion on the word "dance music" and its shifting meanings, the origin of the current wave of dance music in the post-disco era, and a brief run-down of different styles. I'll see what I can do over the weekend. Birdseed 15:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
'Okay, having had another look at it, this article needs to be merged with Electronic Dance Music, which while needing some improvement is not nearly this abysmal. Birdseed 09:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
The article should be moved to electronic dance music. it is true that dance music can mean "classic dance music" like tango, waltz,etc. but dance is also a way to generally describe electronic music. the problem is, dance is not only electronic music, but it is also a genre from itself (i learned that in dj school). So there should be three articles:
i just wanted to point that out, because i am 100% sure dance music can be used in both forms (genre, music). -- 201.210.121.22 20:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
D4RK-L3G10N ( talk) 20:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I agree, more debate would be welcome, as well as more awareness regarding musical terminology, I think you are "near the point".-- Doktor Who 17:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
This is clearly written from the perspective of someone in the UK, or the majority of the US, and not the rest of the world. Dance is still heavily played on radio outside of these areas. -- 62.77.181.1 21:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Right now, this isn't about dance music. "Dance music" is a very general term, right now this is only about electronic dance music. Dance music encompasses salsa, minuets, swing, whatever, as long as its purpose was for dancing. I just read some of the above discussion and saw that others agree with me. I think dancing music should be merged here. "Dance music" is a very general term, there's already a separate article at electronic dance music (aka "modern dance music"), so it seems like this should just be a general article. Opinions? There appears to be past support for this proposal and little objection, so if there are no objections, I'll perform the merge next week. Wickethewok 20:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Go for the merge... the article as it stands implies that dancing to music started about 1980. Perhaps you could start with the Australian Aboriginal corroboree. m.e. 11:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Why no hip hop? It was after all the hip hop and rap musicians who helped revive synchopated beats amongst clubbers in the late Eighties, using looped James Brown beats, that helped dance beats and the MC/DJ culture take off, especially in the UK, where urban pirate radio used to play hip hop/house/techno and ragga to the same audiences (especially in London and the North of England like the legendary Dream FM in Leeds)long before podcasts existed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.247.27 ( talk) 01:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Dance music is a genre and it shouldn't have been merged into dancing music. Classical music is very "popular" around the world. Shall we merge that into pop music as well? -- Abuk SABUK ( talk) 16:51, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
This is a very bizarre article it has to be said.
Dance music doesn't really refer to "music you dance to", but an umbrella of closely related genres, and I think the Americanism of EDM has been confused for this? It seems like by merging this article and the body of
Electronic dance music (and in the process stripping out the commercial American 'EDM' genre into a separate page - that article already alludes to this a bit) might really be the best way forward? I think the classical interpretations of people dancing to music are a bit ill-informed and don't really belong here either in any real capacity, given there's a whole history of technology, politics, and culture on the evolution of how these genres have come about that it'd probably be better to focus on? Definitely not a clear line that divides these genres, but calling things like
Detroit house,
jungle, and
italo disco all 'EDM' is totally wrong.
Orangeisacop (
talk) 20:57, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
umbrella term for a panoply of musical styles that emerged in the mid-1980s.Grove defines it as
music intended primarily for dancing at nightclubs and raves... is characterized by rapid evolution—hundreds of subgenres and hybrid genres have been created since its inception in the 1980s.There you go. If two of the most respected tertiary sources in the world disagree with you, I don't know much else to tell you. Why? I Ask ( talk) 14:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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Whoops, the prev. move propsal should have been a merge, my apologies. I'm proposing merging this page Electronic dance music with the page dance music, with the intent to later branch off a separate focused article on the commercial/American genre/style/trend of EDM. More detail in the prev., but the main intent is to streamline the content on the subject and to open up more discussion about dance. I've started work on preparing this article already, updating some of the terminology and removing some American-centric views. It's my personal view that 'dance music' is a better umbrella term, and that electronic-ness limits discussion about influences and context and doesn't make a huge amount of sense in some places. Jungle and drum and bass have more in common with reggae/ragga than house, and this article already had a large section on hip-hop? General consensus against the merge is that dance music also refers to classical/traditional dance, and I agree for the sake of giving some brief historical context, but I think terms such as ballroom/folk are more accurate and common terms for that, and that 'dance music' more commonly refers to what we've got here. Dance music's biggest section is already just on electronic and most of the unique content can/has been easily factored in. The hope is that this merge will allow for more talk of stylistic influences, politics, and culture. Cheers. Orangeisacop ( talk) 15:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Nobody calls music for ballroom dancing etc. "dance music".Sorry, but that is plain false. I linked several pertinent sources above. (You can even find older music periodicals calling ballroom dance music.) Why? I Ask ( talk) 18:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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Dancermia11 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:43, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
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This page now reflects the modern club genre rather than the traditional accompanyment.. and so needs writing!. my personal opinion is that it ought to share similar content to electronic music (but briefer with link to main article) but with a bit about other 'club music' forms such as the sections of rnb or even hip hop which are played in clubs; to reflect the common categorisation of these styles of music into dance music. anyway i'm no expert so someone needs to step up..~bungalowbill
Wathiik 15:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
East African and West African dance influenced the world. Later, black slave music and dance created American Gospel, RnB, Blues, Soul. Soul, House, RnB, and garage and hip hop were the original that Disco, EDM and Pop was created from. Could someone confirm then edit the article? -- 2604:2000:DDC7:1700:F432:8FC5:7FC1:C63B ( talk) 12:09, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Well in my school, Dance music is a broad term for electronic music (trance, house etc.)
This page needs some major editing - a discussion on the word "dance music" and its shifting meanings, the origin of the current wave of dance music in the post-disco era, and a brief run-down of different styles. I'll see what I can do over the weekend. Birdseed 15:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
'Okay, having had another look at it, this article needs to be merged with Electronic Dance Music, which while needing some improvement is not nearly this abysmal. Birdseed 09:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
The article should be moved to electronic dance music. it is true that dance music can mean "classic dance music" like tango, waltz,etc. but dance is also a way to generally describe electronic music. the problem is, dance is not only electronic music, but it is also a genre from itself (i learned that in dj school). So there should be three articles:
i just wanted to point that out, because i am 100% sure dance music can be used in both forms (genre, music). -- 201.210.121.22 20:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
D4RK-L3G10N ( talk) 20:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I agree, more debate would be welcome, as well as more awareness regarding musical terminology, I think you are "near the point".-- Doktor Who 17:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
This is clearly written from the perspective of someone in the UK, or the majority of the US, and not the rest of the world. Dance is still heavily played on radio outside of these areas. -- 62.77.181.1 21:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Right now, this isn't about dance music. "Dance music" is a very general term, right now this is only about electronic dance music. Dance music encompasses salsa, minuets, swing, whatever, as long as its purpose was for dancing. I just read some of the above discussion and saw that others agree with me. I think dancing music should be merged here. "Dance music" is a very general term, there's already a separate article at electronic dance music (aka "modern dance music"), so it seems like this should just be a general article. Opinions? There appears to be past support for this proposal and little objection, so if there are no objections, I'll perform the merge next week. Wickethewok 20:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Go for the merge... the article as it stands implies that dancing to music started about 1980. Perhaps you could start with the Australian Aboriginal corroboree. m.e. 11:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Why no hip hop? It was after all the hip hop and rap musicians who helped revive synchopated beats amongst clubbers in the late Eighties, using looped James Brown beats, that helped dance beats and the MC/DJ culture take off, especially in the UK, where urban pirate radio used to play hip hop/house/techno and ragga to the same audiences (especially in London and the North of England like the legendary Dream FM in Leeds)long before podcasts existed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.247.27 ( talk) 01:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Dance music is a genre and it shouldn't have been merged into dancing music. Classical music is very "popular" around the world. Shall we merge that into pop music as well? -- Abuk SABUK ( talk) 16:51, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
This is a very bizarre article it has to be said.
Dance music doesn't really refer to "music you dance to", but an umbrella of closely related genres, and I think the Americanism of EDM has been confused for this? It seems like by merging this article and the body of
Electronic dance music (and in the process stripping out the commercial American 'EDM' genre into a separate page - that article already alludes to this a bit) might really be the best way forward? I think the classical interpretations of people dancing to music are a bit ill-informed and don't really belong here either in any real capacity, given there's a whole history of technology, politics, and culture on the evolution of how these genres have come about that it'd probably be better to focus on? Definitely not a clear line that divides these genres, but calling things like
Detroit house,
jungle, and
italo disco all 'EDM' is totally wrong.
Orangeisacop (
talk) 20:57, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
umbrella term for a panoply of musical styles that emerged in the mid-1980s.Grove defines it as
music intended primarily for dancing at nightclubs and raves... is characterized by rapid evolution—hundreds of subgenres and hybrid genres have been created since its inception in the 1980s.There you go. If two of the most respected tertiary sources in the world disagree with you, I don't know much else to tell you. Why? I Ask ( talk) 14:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Electronic dance music which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 01:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Whoops, the prev. move propsal should have been a merge, my apologies. I'm proposing merging this page Electronic dance music with the page dance music, with the intent to later branch off a separate focused article on the commercial/American genre/style/trend of EDM. More detail in the prev., but the main intent is to streamline the content on the subject and to open up more discussion about dance. I've started work on preparing this article already, updating some of the terminology and removing some American-centric views. It's my personal view that 'dance music' is a better umbrella term, and that electronic-ness limits discussion about influences and context and doesn't make a huge amount of sense in some places. Jungle and drum and bass have more in common with reggae/ragga than house, and this article already had a large section on hip-hop? General consensus against the merge is that dance music also refers to classical/traditional dance, and I agree for the sake of giving some brief historical context, but I think terms such as ballroom/folk are more accurate and common terms for that, and that 'dance music' more commonly refers to what we've got here. Dance music's biggest section is already just on electronic and most of the unique content can/has been easily factored in. The hope is that this merge will allow for more talk of stylistic influences, politics, and culture. Cheers. Orangeisacop ( talk) 15:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Nobody calls music for ballroom dancing etc. "dance music".Sorry, but that is plain false. I linked several pertinent sources above. (You can even find older music periodicals calling ballroom dance music.) Why? I Ask ( talk) 18:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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