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Subject: "The Dance Cycle"
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/31/06 at 9:57 pm
Late 1979: Disco dies.
Late 1979-Late 1982: The "dark ages of dance." Mainstream audiences are terrified of dance music, instead clinging to non-dancey MTV style pop-rock and MOR.
Early 1983: Madonna, Duran Duran, and Michael Jackson reintroduce dance music via dance-pop, and Prince's electrofunk comes in. People are reacclimated to dance music as discophobia slightly fades away through tunes like "Lucky Star" and "Billie Jean." This period lasts to like 1987. My favorite dance period.
Mid 1987: Hello, Jody Watley! Jody Watley starts off the "urban dance-pop" trend that includes Paula Abdul, M.C. Hammer, and soon the doors are opened to house music. House music begins popularity.
c. 1989: Club music, house music, and urban dance-pop gain popularity. Madonna's "Vogue" starts popularity of house, as does C+C Music Factory.
c. 1996: Technomania and Ibiza Club-mania increases in the U.S.
Subject: Re: "The Dance Cycle"
Written By: yelimsexa on 05/04/11 at 12:09 pm
Late 1979: Disco dies.
Late 1979-Late 1982: The "dark ages of dance." Mainstream audiences are terrified of dance music, instead clinging to non-dancey MTV style pop-rock and MOR.
Early 1983: Madonna, Duran Duran, and Michael Jackson reintroduce dance music via dance-pop, and Prince's electrofunk comes in. People are reacclimated to dance music as discophobia slightly fades away through tunes like "Lucky Star" and "Billie Jean." This period lasts to like 1987. My favorite dance period.
Mid 1987: Hello, Jody Watley! Jody Watley starts off the "urban dance-pop" trend that includes Paula Abdul, M.C. Hammer, and soon the doors are opened to house music. House music begins popularity.
c. 1989: Club music, house music, and urban dance-pop gain popularity. Madonna's "Vogue" starts popularity of house, as does C+C Music Factory.
c. 1996: Technomania and Ibiza Club-mania increases in the U.S.
I'll take this WAY back to the 1920s.
c. 1921-late 1929: Dance music booms via jazz/flappers/Charleston.
Late 1929: Flapper-style dance music dies brought by depression.
1930-1934: A dark era; the economic downfall changes the sound to weepy ballads, blues, and straight pop.
1935-1944: Dance music bounces back with big bands/swing and the Lindy Hop. Lots of "ballroom classics" from this era remain today.
1945-1949: Transition era; Bebop is popular but swing fades and ballads become popular once again.
1950-1954: Another dark era as mainstream music is dominated by weepy ballads and some country.
1955-1958: Sock-hop style dancing in vogue as Rock n' Roll brings a whole new generation of dancing.
1959: A mild step back to the 1950-1954 era, but less severe.
1960- mid 1966: This is the age of "1000 dances", led by the Twist with others such as the Mashed Potato, Wah-Watusi, The Monkey, and The Fly popular and is the Baby Boomers "ballroom dancing" era of choice. The first "discotheques", predecessors to the discos of the '70s open. This period also had "go-go dancing" toward the end.
Late 1966-1973: Another dark era as music becomes socially concious and serious rock is the music of choice.
Some of the soul /early funk music music however paved the way for:
1974-1979: Disco
Getting back to where the OP described, around 1996 was also when Electronica and Trance also gave clubs popularity. This lasted until around 2002.
2003-2007: Most dance is popular in Europe/Asia as ringtone rap/snap rap is dominant, but electrodance develops overseas.
2008-mid 2011: Dubstep/electropop
Late 2011-present: Brostep.