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.

   Synonyms: EDM, dance music, dance

   • 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.

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.

Translations

a genre of percussive electronic music

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子舞曲／电子舞曲 (diànzǐ wǔqū)

• Czech: elektronická taneční hudba f
• Finnish: elektroninen tanssimusiikki
• Georgian: ელექტრონული საცეკვაო მუსიკა (elekṭronuli saceḳvao musiḳa), საცეკვაო ელექტრონული მუსიკა (saceḳvao elekṭronuli musiḳa)
• Japanese: エレクトロニック・ダンス・ミュージック (erekutoronikku dansu myūjikku)
• Korean: 일렉트로닉 댄스 뮤직 (illekteuronik daenseu myujik)
• Malay: muzik tarian elektronik (ms)
• Russian: электро́нная танцева́льная му́зыка f (elektrónnaja tanceválʹnaja múzyka)
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• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• intelligent dance music

Further reading

• electronic dance music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia