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Also known as disco-rock, DOR

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.

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Dance-rock
Music genre.cultural_origins
Late 1970s – early 1980s
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1983-01-01
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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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