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

The new breed of post-rock bands, on the other hand, were cribbing ideas from the worlds of dance music and hip-hop. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026

Thirty years after Northern Exposure turned two DJs’ record collections into a long-form journey through progressive, psychedelic and ambient dance music, Sasha and John Digweed are opening the vault. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2026

There’s such a varied, decidedly global approach to dance music on this album. — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026

Estrus is still made for the dark and sweaty rooms, with propulsive electro-pop that draws on the Swedish indie and dance music Lo grew up loving (The Knife and Robyn are among its reference points). — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1987, in the meaning defined above