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History of Electronic Dance Music
History of Electronic Dance Music
electronic dancing music. House music, drum and bass, traps, trance songs, synthpop, disco
music, dubstep, and hardstyle are some of the genres of music. Musicologists believe that
melodies have evolved throughout time, despite their argument that it is hard to classify them as
EDM at the same time due to the subgenres and broad range of categories. Some industry
professionals contend that the evolution of EDM and its subgenres has been influenced by and
modified the forward-thinking yet traditional dance culture. Research suggests that EDM musical
knowledge now is unique from electronic dance music from the 1970s through the early 2000s
(Franc 3). Whenever the various subgenres of dance music were created separately as dance
music, a clear advancement of this category and innovation in music emerged during each of