History of Dance Music

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the early 1970's from American urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties. Its initial audience in the U.S. where club-goers, both male and female, from African-American, Italian-American, Latino, gay and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960's and early 1970's. Disco music is made up of parts of different musical traditions, including soul, funk, Motown, Salsa and meringue. R&B musicians and audiences from different communities adopted several traits from the hippie and psychedelic subcultures. They included using music venues with a loud, overwhelming sound, free-form dancing, trippy lighting, colourful costumes and the use of hallucinogenic drugs. 

House music is genre of electronic dance music created by club DJ's and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980's. While house displayed several characteristics similar to disco music, which preceded and influenced it, as both were DJ and record producers-created dance music, house was more electronic and minimalistic. The mechanical, repetitive rhythm of house was one of it's main components. Many house house songs were instrumental, with no vocals, some singing throughout the song with lyrics, and some had singing but no actual words. 

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980's. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of sub genres has been built. The original techno sound drew heavily from it's punk and soul music roots to create characteristically intense grooves and percussive basslines.