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This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against ...
Disco. Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars . Disco started as a mixture of music from ...
Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture , polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
Dancehall. Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. [ 4][ 5] Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. [ 6][ 7] In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably, with digital ...
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) [ 3] that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage, [ 4] and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. [ 2] The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 140 beats per minute, [ 4][ 1] and often features ...
Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio. Developing from a combination of dance and pop with influences of disco, [2] post-disco [3] and synth-pop, [1] it is ...
Folk punk. Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music ...