Genre Research: Dance

Dance music is composed specifically to encourage or accompany dancing, rather than to tell a story.

Genre Conventions:
- Mise en Scene

• Casual Clothing
• Focus on dance moves
• Bright lights

- Origins

•  Late 19th century Western ballroom and social dance music
• Gained huge popularity among the working class in the 1920s
• In the 1930s Swing music was the most popular form of dance music
• Rock and Roll became a very popular form of dance music during the 1950s
• The 1960s saw the rise of Soul music, as well as RnB
• Dance music became most popular among the general public in the early 1970s with the rise of Disco
• By the late 1970s electronic dance music was developing. This is commonly played at nightclubs and raves, and many subgenres have evolved such as, House, and Dubstep