electronic dance music

electronic dance music

English

Noun

electronic dance music (uncountable)

1. (music) A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music.
   • 2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia

     Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.

Synonyms

• EDM, dance music, dance

Translations

a genre of percussive electronic music

Chinese: please add this translation if you can Czech: elektronická taneční hudba f Finnish: elektroninen tanssimusiikki Georgian: ელექტრონული საცეკვაო მუსიკა (elekṭronuli saceḳvao musiḳa), საცეკვაო ელექტრონული მუსიკა (saceḳvao elekṭronuli musiḳa) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Korean: please add this translation if you can Russian: электро́нная танцева́льная му́зыка f (elektrónnaja tanceválʹnaja múzyka) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Usage notes

• The term electronic dance music is usually taken to apply only to post-disco genres, despite disco itself being electronic dance music. It thus encompasses styles like deep house, which are not strongly dance-oriented.