Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. 🏀 It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing 🏀 from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what 🏀 is sometimes called a live PA. Since its inception EDM has expanded to include a wide range of subgenres.
In the 🏀 late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radio, PartyCrews, underground festivals and an upsurge of interest 🏀 in club culture, EDM achieved mainstream popularity in Europe. However, rave culture was not as broadly popular in the United 🏀 States; it was not typically seen outside of the regional scenes in New York City, Florida, the Midwest, and California. 🏀 Although both electro and Chicago house music were influential both in Europe and the United States, mainstream media outlets and 🏀 the record industry remained openly hostile to it. There was also a perceived association between EDM and drug culture, which 🏀 led governments at state and city levels to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture.[3]
Subsequently, 🏀 in the new millennium, the popularity of EDM increased globally, particularly in the United States and Australia. By the early 🏀 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music 🏀 press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture.[3] Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the 🏀 acronym remains in use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including dance-pop, house, techno, electro and trance, as well 🏀 as their respective subgenres.[4][5][6]
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Various EDM genres have evolved over the last 40 years, for example; house, techno, 🏀 drum and bass, dance-pop etc. Stylistic variation within an established EDM genre can lead to the emergence of what is 🏀 called a subgenre. Hybridization, where elements of two or more genres are combined, can lead to the emergence of an 🏀 entirely new genre of EDM.[4]