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名詞

dance music (uncountable)

1. Music composed to accompany social dancing.
   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out:

     From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, OCLC 365836:

     In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.

2. (modern usage) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
   • 2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.