dance music

noun

: electronic dance music

Fueled by socioeconomic, cultural and technological changes, dance music and club culture have built on the progress of the past to leave a footprint deeper than we've seen before.—

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1987, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dance music was in 1987

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