electronic dance music
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[edit]Noun
[edit]electronic dance music (uncountable)
- (music) A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music.
- Synonyms: EDM, dance music, dance
- 2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia:
- Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.
Usage notes
[edit]- The term electronic dance music is usually taken to apply only to post-disco genres, despite disco itself being electronic dance music. It thus encompasses styles like deep house, which are not strongly dance-oriented.
Translations
[edit]a genre of percussive electronic music
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- electronic dance music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia