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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)

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Well in my school, Dance music is a broad term for electronic music (trance, house etc.)

[edit] Oh goodness

This page needs some major editing - a discussion on the word "dance music" and its shifting meanings, the origin of the current wave of dance music in the post-disco era, and a brief run-down of different styles. I'll see what I can do over the weekend. Birdseed 15:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

'Okay, having had another look at it, this article needs to be merged with Electronic Dance Music, which while needing some improvement is not nearly this abysmal. Birdseed 09:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I think what would be best is to move the page at Dancing music here, since one of the sections already directly concerns electronica. Dancing music isn't a great article either, but it is broad and correctly encompasses EDM. Dekimasu 01:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
No, i'm with birdseed, 'dancing music' is about traditional dance music; waltz, tango and all that. it bears no resemblance to EDM, which is what 'dance music' most often refers to. and that information should be here as 100's of singles/albums/artists list 'dance' as their genre; linking to here. the dancing music article only features a passing acknowledgment of EMD (mainly as it used to be located here), and is not appropriate for those links. (nor is it more notable than EDM). 'Electronic dance music' should be moved here is the best thing i can think of..Bungalowbill 08:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The article should be moved to electronic dance music. it is true that dance music can mean "classic dance music" like tango, waltz,etc. but dance is also a way to generally describe electronic music. the problem is, dance is not only electronic music, but it is also a genre from itself (i learned that in dj school). So there should be three articles:

-"classic" dance music
-electronic dance music (all kinds of electronic music)
-dance music (genre from electronic music)

i just wanted to point that out, because i am 100% sure dance music can be used in both forms (genre, music). --201.210.121.22 20:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Even though I'm not much of a musician, I always had known that 'dance music' could be used in this three forms, depending on the context. I think the electronic dance music article is already good because it describes in a broad way all electronic dance music (lol), even saying that itself isn't a genre, more a meta-genre. And I've always heard 'Dance' as well as a genre in EDM, even though I can't technically explain it. Of course classical forms of dance music such as tango, waltz, etc. can't be left out and deserve an article of its own, even though I consider putting them only as 'Dance Music' would be a too restrictive textual interpretation of the term.
Maybe there could be done a disambiguation article linking to those three potential articles. I believe merging one or more of them would create a lot of confusion and controversy and even reduce overall quality since at least I deem the EDM article as a good one.

D4RK-L3G10N (talk) 20:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just my two cents worth ==I am Sad!!!!

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)

I agree, more debate would be welcome, as well as more awareness regarding musical terminology, I think you are "near the point".--Doktor Who 17:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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)

[edit] "radio stations (historically)"

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)

[edit] Re-doing this article

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)

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

Go for the merge... the article as it stands implies that dancing to music started about 1980. Perhaps you could start with the Australian Aboriginal corroboree. m.e. 11:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Alritey, I put a lot of the text that was here into the Electronic dance music section here and put some into the actual electronic dance music article as well as integrating from the dancing music article which is now a redirect. These still need a lot of work to be decent, but at least they are under less confusing article titles.Wickethewok 15:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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)