Talk:Dance music

message: Dancermia11 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 19:43, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

message: 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
:As far as I know, the term dance music is used (in popular music) usually to refer to post-disco, especially late 1980s, early 1990s commercial dance music related to styles such as house and hip hop, examples: I'm gonna make you sweat by C & C Music Factory, The Power and Oops Up by Snap, Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic. 
Wathiik 15:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the content of this article is regarding the origins of the objective dance music (the act of dancing to music) we can track this back to ancient ceremonial dances etc, making this genre much larger than simply post-disco. I edited the "by decade" section and added a more recent "2020s" section to make the article more current. Dancermia11 (talk) 23:18, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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message: 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)
replies: text: I have included a section on the cultural influences of Western African dance. Dancermia11 (talk) 23:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  African origins ignored in the article 

message: :The way I have always seen it is that dance music can be all sorts of things. In many American (and indeed British) music award ceremonies all sorts of acts come under the 'dance' category. I've seen both Christina Aguilera and Lou Bega win dance awards when they clearly aren't the same as acts like ATB, Snap, Paul Van Dyk etc. Bega is in fact more like the 'traditional' Latin dance stars of yesteryear using traditional instruments such as brass. I think we need a more structured debate about this, similar to mediation as it is complex. Cls14 14:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DEFINITIVELY! Maybe we should even leave this technical discussion to Wiki-Users that have considerable knowledge and formation in the subject. Well, at least I consider myself only as an amateur haha XD D4RK-L3G10N (talk) 20:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just my two cents worth ==I am Sad!!!!

message: 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)
thread_title:  "radio stations (historically)" 

message: 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)
replies: text: I fully agree. Maybe, there was a far better earlier version. --Doktor Who 23:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

text: *I think what used to be here was actually moved to dancing music and this was replaced.  Judging by the edit summary, the editor felt "dance music" as used in other WP articles typically referred to electronic dance music, so they moved the article (see the earliest log entry of the article).  Wickethewok 07:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  You did the EDM article? It's quite good you know :D I agree with the merge. I proposed making 'Dance Music' more of a more-less disambiguation article on 'Dance music' where differentiation and a broad explanation is done, but I just noticed that the article is already that way XD Still it should be quite improved to be something more of 'Wiki'-quality haha XD I'll see if I do some thorough work on it. D4RK-L3G10N (talk) 21:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-doing this article

message: 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)
replies: text: I disagree with you. Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing – not genre-specific. See User_talk:Adabow/Archive_23#Dance_Music. 115.164.72.8 (talk) 11:16, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The whole article isn't very well sourced to be honest. >> Lil-unique1 (talk) — 14:52, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dance music and general dancing music. 

message: 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)
replies: text: @Orangeisacop: Just now noticing this comment. This is entirely, completely wrong. I've already linked OED and Harvard sources in the following discussion. Dance music has been a thing since pre-history as music specifically made to dance to. Your entire argument to merge is based on faulty reasoning. And yes, according to Britannica, EDM includes all those genres where it defines EDM as an  Grove defines it as  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)
thread_title:  Dance music 

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