dance-rock
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Dance-rock is a dance-infused genre of rock music. It is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and new wave with fewer rhythm and blues influences. It originated in the early 1980s, following the decline in popularity of both punk and disco.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Dance-rock
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Late 1970s – early 1980s
- Music genre.other_topics
- List of artists dance-punk electronic rock Neue Deutsche Härte
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- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- rock music
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- Dance-rock
- inception
- 1983-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Dance-rock
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Dance-rock is a dance-infused genre of rock music. It is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and new wave with fewer rhythm and blues influences. It originated in the early 1980s, following the decline in popularity of both punk and disco.
==Definitions== Michael Campbell, in his book Popular Music in America, defines the genre as "post-punk/post-disco fusion". Campbell also cited Robert Christgau, who described dance-oriented rock (or DOR) as an umbrella term used by various DJs in the 1980s.
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