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Dance music

For dance music means a broad family of modern musical genres, which mainly to act as accompaniment for dancing. Historically, the first song that we use to refer when it comes to dance music is Disco Inferno (1976) of the Trammps. Then, there have been over time a number of other sub-genres, including house, techno, trance, and others. The birth of music "Disco" dates back to the mid-seventies, the same period when the concept was born just "disco" as it is understood today. The explosion of the success of this kind of music takes place at the end of 1977 and 1978 will be remembered as the year of the decade seventy more productive for the songs of this genre. In this period coins the term "disco." The first successes are in style Funky Soul and with the addition of electronic rhythmic bases. The exponents are: KC and the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, the Chic, ABBA, Cerrone, Earth Wind and Fire and Barry White. Added to these are Donna Summer (with producer Giorgio Moroder and the famous I Feel Love), Gino Soccio, The Bee Gees and the Village People that stand out from the first group mentioned for the more melodic sound. In the period in which depopulated the disco music in Italy we do not have players or important producers. Identified with "One For You, One For Me" (1979) of The Blonde; (Subsequent creators of "Righeira") one of the first real successes "dance" of Italian production. In the same period a team of musicians, led by Italian Mauro Malavasi and Paul Gianolio, with the help of vocalist US, including Luther Vandross give life to Change, for which there will be nominations to the famous Grammy Awards. Followed will be "Play Jouer" Claudio Cecchetto 1980. In the eighties, then they start to define the divisions between genres of dance music, from house and techno genre scene in Detroit and Chicago to the European and Italian, less tied to clubbing and more to the radio but still very followed by clubbers. Europe is beginning to compose real songs with the traditional pattern verse bridge chorus, taken from the world of poprock. So you have 'products pop that work well in clubs from the US scene and Anglo-Saxon (but that are not actually part of the dance music): remember the achievements of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston and the English Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys and Talk Talk. It also assists the boom in so-called "Italodisco", which will collect up success in Latin America and Japan.

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