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House dance is a freestyle street dance and social dance that has roots in the underground house music scene of Chicago and New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically danced to loud and bass -heavy electronic dance music provided by DJs in nightclubs or at raves .
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. [10] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.
House music originated in a Chicago nightclub called The Warehouse. Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. While the origins of the name "house music" are unclear, the most popular belief is that it can be traced to the name of that club. DJ Frankie Knuckles originally popularized house music while working at The Warehouse. [6]
Electronic body music (EBM) Early 1980s Germany, Belgium: House: 1983 United States Garage house: 1983 United States (New York & New Jersey) Chicago house: 1983 United States (Chicago) Deep house: 1985 United States (Chicago) Acid house: Mid-1980s United States (Chicago) Techno: Mid-1980s United States (Detroit), Germany Detroit techno: Mid-1980s
The early house music sound was a "dialogue" between Hispanic, [2] and Black American post-disco [3] [4] [5] and European post-punk [6] [7] electronic music and their traditions with Italo-disco picked or, emulated the most, [8] as the template for house music. [9]
House music is essentially disco music with electronic drum machine beats. The common element of most house music is a 4/4 beat generated by a drum machine or other electronic means (such as a sampler), together with a solid (usually also electronically generated) synth bassline.
Some dance music compilations referred to it as "the sound of Ibiza", even though many other, more aggressive and upbeat forms of dance music could be heard on the island. Ballroom Also known as Vogue, is a style of house music emerging in the late 1980s associated with the gay, transgender and drag community.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."