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.

—Foster Kamer

Examples of dance music in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Living here, everything is like a movie and everything is moving, like dance music. — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026

At one point, Two Shell were one of the most exciting acts in underground dance music. — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026

That year, the British A&R man Neil Rushton began collecting tracks from Detroit artists to spotlight the Motor City’s new dance music — a compilation to be titled The House Sound of Detroit. — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026

Emerging in small spaces and clubs in Rio, bossa nova was vocal, not dance music. — Fernando Gonzalez, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1987, in the meaning defined above