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Electropop, as a musical genre, has existed since electronic synthesizer-based music fused with pop music to create a new genre that is now widely known as electropop. In other words, if your music has synthetic elements, and yet aims to be popular, it could be considered “electropop”.
electronic dance music, umbrella term for a panoply of musical styles that emerged in the mid-1980s. Rather than designating a single genre, electronic dance music (EDM) encompasses styles ranging from beatless ambient music to 200-beats-per-minute hardcore, with house music, techno, drum and bass, dubstep, and trance among the most-notable ...
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Feb 25, 2024 · Pop electronic music, often referred to as “electropop,” is a subgenre of popular music that blends elements of electronic music with pop music. It emerged in the late 1970s and gained significant mainstream popularity in the 1980s, with the advent of new electronic instruments and technology.
Jul 25, 2022 · Late 19th- and early 20th century. Although some claim that the first electrical music instrument, Golden Dionysus, was possibly developed in 1748, marking the birth of electronic music, the genre more probably originated, in the broader sense, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
By late 2011, Music Trades was describing electronic dance music as the fastest-growing genre in the world. Elements of electronic music also became increasingly prominent in pop music. [114] Radio and television also contributed to dance music's mainstream acceptance.
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally.
EDM is technically a genre of its own under the broader electronic music umbrella, rather than being an umbrella term itself. In a Q&A with musicweek.com in 2019, Beatport CEO Robb McDaniels explained it like this: Some people mistake dance and electronic music with EDM. For us, EDM is just a genre that’s commercial.
