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Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically for social dancing.In principle, dance music includes a huge variety of music, from waltzes to rock and roll and country music or tangos. As of the late 1970s, however--particularly for people who frequent nightclubs--the term dance music has come to more specifically refer to electronic music offshoots of rock and roll such as disco, house, techno and trance.
(See also: hip hop, breakdancing, funkFunk is a distinct style of music originated by African-Americans, e. James Brown and his band members (especially Maceo and Melvin Parker), and groups like The Meters. Funk best can be recognized by its syncopated rhythms; thick bass line (often based on, drum and bassDrum and bass drum n bass DnB is an electronic music style. Originally an offshoot of the United Kingdom breakbeat hardcore and rave scene, it came into existence when people mixed reggae basslines with sped-up hip hop breakbeats and influences from techn, reggaeReggae is an African Caribbean style of music developed on the island of Jamaica and is closely linked to the religion Rastafarianism, though not universally popular among its members. The origins of reggae can be found in traditional African Caribbean mu, and electronic music.)
Dance music in the traditionalThe phrase traditional music normally designates the indigenous music of a people, played in a social context. Traditional music is communicated from person to person orally, "by word of mouth", rather than in printed form or through recordings or broadca sense, are musical forms supposed to serve as an accompaniment for a dance (at least formally). It can be either the whole musical piece or a part of a larger musical arrangement. Many cultures have their own form of traditional dance music such as Irish traditional music.
An example of traditional dance music in the United States is Old-time musicOld-time music a traditional style of American music, has roots in Irish, Scottish and African folk music. Practitioners play it with stringed instruments such as the bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle (violin). The term "old-time" as a label goes which is played at Square dances and Contra dances.
Dance musical works usually bear the name of the corresponding dance, i.e. waltzes, the tango, the bolero, the can-can, minuets, salsa, various kinds of jigs and the breakdown . Other dance forms include contradance, the merengue, the Cha-Cha,
Since dance almost always inseparable from music, in most cases it is difficult to decide whether the name of a particular kind of music was transferred onto the dance or vice versa.
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