house music

noun

: a type of electronic dance music with a heavy, regular beat

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In addition to the heavy hitters in the genres of techno, drum and bass, dubstep and house music, this year’s EDC Orlando features more than 30 artists making their festival debut. Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025 Directed by Elegance Bratton, Move Ya Body digs into the origins of house music on the South Side of Chicago, where Lawrence and his peers crafted a new sound with emerging synth technology and perfected it in underground clubs like the Warehouse. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025 One of the world’s biggest (but also, smallest) nightlife capitals, the island located off the eastern coast of Spain is known for its high-energy club culture, particularly its raves and myriad flavors of sound — from reggaeton to house music and beyond. Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 24 May 2025 The birth of house music in the 1980s was also, in part, a response to the heyday, and unceremonious downfall, of disco, another genre that had distinctly Black origins before garnering more mainstream attention via white artists and culture. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for house music

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