Dance Music
Popular Dance, EDM and Underground Dance, including all the club-based music productions and excluding Ballet Music
MUSIC TAXONOMY
For Dance Music is intended all kind of music created and produced mainly for being listened and danced in club or for a general purpose of dance.
This frame are not listened only electronic dance music but integrates different forms of music whose production is intended for dance club, even if its consumption happens elsewhere, and whose artists' performances consist mainly in live mixing of recorded tracks.
The three main Broad Genres of Dance Music are : Dance Popular, EDM and Dance Underground.
Dance Popular collects all forms of dance music from the '50s to current days, keeping a wide listening outside the clubs (Disco '70, Dance Pop, Latin Dance Pop) or inspired by local traditions (Caraibbean Dance Music, Ethnic Electronic, Latin Dance Pop, Dancehall).
The term EDM has several interpretations.
It might be literally intended as all Electronic Dance Music (as in US), but in EML the term refers to a particular genre of dance music "elected" to broad genre for classification needs, born in the early 2000s, intended for mass consumption, that brings together the rather decided rhythms derived from techno music to more catchy melodies, and that gave rise to large international gatherings.
The Underground scene is divided into four broad genres in standard classification intended as meta-genres: House Music, Techno Music, Rave Music and Industrial Music, all characterized by a more intense rhythm and evoking more transgressive, and intense atmospheres.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.
Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, poly-rhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
This sets is the common ground of two different languages: popular music and art music.