History Of Dance Music

This website is dedicated to dance music. It seems a lot of online music stores are ignoring the many dance music genres and sub genres, especially new emerging genres. So we want to create an online store that caters for all dance music genres and their sub genres.

Dance music is sometimes called electronic dance music but we find it not sensible since not all dance music is made electronically and since not all electronic music is dance music. Though referring to certain tracks as dance music is subjective, dance music is music produced or created specifically for dance purposes, this type of music takes it's roots from 70s disco music, which is considered to be the father of all dance music to date.

Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa that was most popular in the mid to late 1970s, though it has had brief resurgences. Its initial audiences were club-goers from the gay, African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia and then later New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s Disco was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1979 and 1980, and disco was basically dead by 1981. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on 12 July 1979, is commonly thought of as a factor to disco's fast and drastic decline.In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released. The film was marketed specifically to broaden disco's popularity beyond its primarily black and Latin audiences. It was a huge success and its soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time.By the late 1970s, a strong anti-disco sentiment developed among rock fans and musicians, particularly in the United States. The slogans "disco sucks" and "death to disco" became common. Rock artists who added disco elements to their music were accused of being sell outs.

July 12, 1979 became known as "the day disco died" because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration in a baseball double-header at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Rock-station DJs Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, along with Michael Veeck, son of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, staged the promotional event for disgruntled rock fans between the games of a White Sox doubleheader. The event, which involved exploding disco records, ended with a riot, during which the raucous crowd tore out seats and pieces of turf, and caused other damage. Six months prior to the chaotic event, popular progressive rock radio station WDAI (WLS-FM) had suddenly switched to an all disco format, disenfranchising thousands of Chicago rock fans and leaving Dahl unemployed.

In the 80s the word disco was kind of used but soon faded away, the direct continuation of disco was Hi NRG, in Europe the backlash against disco didn't affect Euro disco but it later popularly known as italo disco after space disco ( europe hi nrg). When disco died nobody knew it was already pregnant and out of its ashes came its first and direct descendant, House Music and from house music came all other dance music genres.