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| name = Dance-pop
|bgcolor = #87CEEB
|color = Black
| stylistic_origins = [[Pop music]] • [[Post-disco]]<ref name="NakedTruth">Smay, David & Cooper, Kim (2001). ''Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears'': "... think about Stock-Aitken-Waterman and Kylie Minogue. Dance pop, that's what they call it now — Post-Disco, post-new wave and incorporating elements of both." Feral House: Publisher, p. 327. ISBN 0-922915-69-5.</ref> • [[electronic dance music|Club/dance]] • [[R&B]]
| cultural_origins = Early 1980s
| instruments = [[Drum machine]] • [[Keyboard instrument|Keyboards]] • [[Synthesizer]]s • [[singing|Vocals]] (sometimes [[rapping]])
| derivatives =
| subgenres =
| fusiongenres = [[house music|House-pop]], [[teen pop]]
| popularity = Moderate in both the U.S. & UK in the 1980's. Highly popular worldwide since the late 1990's.
| other_topics = [[Boy bands]] • [[Girl group]]s • [[Eurodance]] • [[Teen pop]] • [[Stock, Aitken & Waterman]] • [[List of dance-pop artists|Dance-pop artists]]
}}
'''Dance-pop''' (or '''dance pop''') is [[dance music|dance]]-oriented [[pop music]] that developed from [[post-disco]], beginning in the early 1980s.
==History==
Complete with pounding, [[nightclub|dance club]] [[upbeat]]s and catchy melodies, the songs of this music are fully-formed and more influenced by [[pop music|pop]] song structure than pure dance music.<ref name="allmusic">[http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:8 Allmusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]: Dance-pop. Re-retrieved from June 1, 2007.</ref> Dance-pop songs are often primarily created by [[record producer]]s, who then select a [[singer]] to perform the song.<ref name="allmusic"/> A notable dance-pop production team in the 1980s and 1990s were [[Stock, Aitken and Waterman]],<ref name="popular_music">Shuker, Roy (2005) [http://books.google.com/books?id=CnVj_ZOBa-MC&pg=PA202&dq=%22dance+pop%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22dance%20pop%22&f=false Popular music: the key concepts], p 202, ISBN 978-0-415-34770-9</ref> who sculpted polished [[Hi-NRG]] production for the likes of [[Kylie Minogue]], [[Rick Astley]] and [[Bananarama]]. Other commercially successful dance-pop musicians include [[Paula Abdul]], [[Madonna (singer)|Madonna]],<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Janet Jackson]],<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Jody Watley]],<ref>http://www.soulmusic.com/ExpressYourself/ExpressYourselfJodyWatley.html</ref> [[The Spice Girls]], [[Christina Aguilera]], [[Britney Spears]] [[Jennifer Lopez]], and more recently, [[Lady Gaga]] and [[Ke$ha]]. Dance-pop has often been the music of [[boy band]]s and [[girl group]]s (e.g. [[Mel & Kim]]).<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hpftxqugldfe~T1 Allmusic.com - Stock Aitken Waterman]</ref>
==See also==
{{Col-begin}}
* [[Post-disco]]
* [[Disco]]
* [[Electropop]]
* [[Eurodisco]]
* [[Europop]]
* [[Eurodance]]
* [[Freestyle music|Freestyle]]
* [[House music|House]]
* [[Synthpop]]
* [[Teen pop]]
* [[Hi-NRG]]
* [[Adult contemporary]]
* [[Italo disco]]
* [[Bubblegum pop]]
* [[New jack swing]]
* [[Alternative dance]]
* [[Dance-punk]]
* [[Japanese pop]]
* [[Contemporary R&B]]
{{Col-end}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Popmusic}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dance-Pop}}
[[Category:American culture]]
[[Category:Dance-pop]]
{{Music-genre-stub}}
[[ar:بوب الرقص]]
[[ca:Pop dance]]
[[cs:Dance-pop]]
[[es:Dance-pop]]
[[fr:Dance pop]]
[[ko:댄스 팝]]
[[it:Dance pop]]
[[ka:საცეკვაო პოპი]]
[[no:Dansepop]]
[[pt:Dance-pop]]
[[ru:Данс-поп]]
[[fi:Dance-pop]]
[[sv:Danspop]]
[[th:แดนซ์ป็อป]]
[[tr:Dans-pop]]
| name = Dance-pop
|bgcolor = #87CEEB
|color = Black
| stylistic_origins = [[Pop music]] • [[Post-disco]]<ref name="NakedTruth">Smay, David & Cooper, Kim (2001). ''Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears'': "... think about Stock-Aitken-Waterman and Kylie Minogue. Dance pop, that's what they call it now — Post-Disco, post-new wave and incorporating elements of both." Feral House: Publisher, p. 327. ISBN 0-922915-69-5.</ref> • [[electronic dance music|Club/dance]] • [[R&B]]
| cultural_origins = Early 1980s
| instruments = [[Drum machine]] • [[Keyboard instrument|Keyboards]] • [[Synthesizer]]s • [[singing|Vocals]] (sometimes [[rapping]])
| derivatives =
| subgenres =
| fusiongenres = [[house music|House-pop]], [[teen pop]]
| popularity = Moderate in both the U.S. & UK in the 1980's. Highly popular worldwide since the late 1990's.
| other_topics = [[Boy bands]] • [[Girl group]]s • [[Eurodance]] • [[Teen pop]] • [[Stock, Aitken & Waterman]] • [[List of dance-pop artists|Dance-pop artists]]
}}
'''Dance-pop''' (or '''dance pop''') is [[dance music|dance]]-oriented [[pop music]] that developed from [[post-disco]], beginning in the early 1980s.
==History==
Complete with pounding, [[nightclub|dance club]] [[upbeat]]s and catchy melodies, the songs of this music are fully-formed and more influenced by [[pop music|pop]] song structure than pure dance music.<ref name="allmusic">[http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:8 Allmusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]: Dance-pop. Re-retrieved from June 1, 2007.</ref> Dance-pop songs are often primarily created by [[record producer]]s, who then select a [[singer]] to perform the song.<ref name="allmusic"/> A notable dance-pop production team in the 1980s and 1990s were [[Stock, Aitken and Waterman]],<ref name="popular_music">Shuker, Roy (2005) [http://books.google.com/books?id=CnVj_ZOBa-MC&pg=PA202&dq=%22dance+pop%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22dance%20pop%22&f=false Popular music: the key concepts], p 202, ISBN 978-0-415-34770-9</ref> who sculpted polished [[Hi-NRG]] production for the likes of [[Kylie Minogue]], [[Rick Astley]] and [[Bananarama]]. Other commercially successful dance-pop musicians include [[Paula Abdul]], [[Madonna (singer)|Madonna]],<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Janet Jackson]],<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Jody Watley]],<ref>http://www.soulmusic.com/ExpressYourself/ExpressYourselfJodyWatley.html</ref> [[The Spice Girls]], [[Christina Aguilera]], [[Britney Spears]] [[Jennifer Lopez]], and more recently, [[Lady Gaga]] and [[Ke$ha]]. Dance-pop has often been the music of [[boy band]]s and [[girl group]]s (e.g. [[Mel & Kim]]).<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hpftxqugldfe~T1 Allmusic.com - Stock Aitken Waterman]</ref>
==See also==
{{Col-begin}}
* [[Post-disco]]
* [[Disco]]
* [[Electropop]]
* [[Eurodisco]]
* [[Europop]]
* [[Eurodance]]
* [[Freestyle music|Freestyle]]
* [[House music|House]]
* [[Synthpop]]
* [[Teen pop]]
* [[Hi-NRG]]
* [[Adult contemporary]]
* [[Italo disco]]
* [[Bubblegum pop]]
* [[New jack swing]]
* [[Alternative dance]]
* [[Dance-punk]]
* [[Japanese pop]]
* [[Contemporary R&B]]
{{Col-end}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Popmusic}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dance-Pop}}
[[Category:American culture]]
[[Category:Dance-pop]]
{{Music-genre-stub}}
[[ar:بوب الرقص]]
[[ca:Pop dance]]
[[cs:Dance-pop]]
[[es:Dance-pop]]
[[fr:Dance pop]]
[[ko:댄스 팝]]
[[it:Dance pop]]
[[ka:საცეკვაო პოპი]]
[[no:Dansepop]]
[[pt:Dance-pop]]
[[ru:Данс-поп]]
[[fi:Dance-pop]]
[[sv:Danspop]]
[[th:แดนซ์ป็อป]]
[[tr:Dans-pop]]