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00:02:01 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Precursors in the 1960s and 1970s
00:03:20 1.1.1 Dub
00:05:09 1.1.2 Hip hop
00:06:17 1.1.3 Disco
00:08:36 1.1.4 Synth-pop
00:10:38 1.2 Hybridity of the Genre
00:12:23 1.3 Dance music in the 1980s
00:12:33 1.3.1 Post-disco
00:14:12 1.3.2 Electro
00:16:19 1.3.3 House music
00:18:47 1.3.4 Techno, acid house, rave
00:22:42 1.4 Dance music in the 1990s
00:22:53 1.4.1 Trance
00:25:40 1.4.2 Breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum and bass
00:28:17 1.5 Dance music in the 21st century
00:28:27 1.5.1 Dubstep
00:30:13 1.5.2 Electro house
00:31:41 2 Popularization in the United States
00:36:45 2.1 US corporate interest
00:40:46 2.2 Criticism of over commercialization
00:43:36 3 International popularisation
00:46:18 4 Terminology
00:48:11 5 Production
00:49:18 5.1 Ghost production
00:50:58 5.2 Bedroom production
00:51:31 6 Festivals
00:55:50 7 Association with recreational drug use
00:59:24 7.1 Drug-related deaths at electronic dance music events
01:01:03 8 Industry awards
01:01:12 9 See also



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SUMMARY
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Electronic dance music (EDM), also known as dance music, club music, or simply dance, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix by segueing from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. In Europe, EDM is more commonly called 'dance music', or simply 'dance'.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radios and an upsurge of interest in club culture, EDM achieved widespread mainstream popularity in Europe. In the United States at that time, acceptance of dance culture was not universal; although both electro and Chicago house music were influential both in Europe and the United States, mainstream media outlets and the record industry remained openly hostile to it.There was also a perceived association between EDM and drug culture, which led governments at state and city level to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture.Subsequently, in the new millennium, the popularity of EDM increased globally, largely in Australia and the United States. By the early 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture. Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the initialism remains in use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including house, techno, trance, drum and bass, and dubstep, as well as their respective subgenres.