Dance-rock

Dance-rock
Stylistic origins	Post-punk, post-disco, dance, R&B, Rock
Cultural origins	Early 1980s
Typical instruments	Keyboard • Bass guitar • Electric guitar • Drum machine• Synthesizer
Mainstream popularity	Mainstream in the 1980s & 1990s
Derivative forms	Alternative dance, electronic rock
Other topics
List of dance-rock artists

Dance-rock is a post-disco movement connected with post-punk/no wave genres with fewer R&B/funk influences. An example of this "post-disco" is Gina X's "No G.D.M."^[1] and artists like Liquid Liquid, Polyrock,^[2] Dinosaur L, and Disco Not Disco [2000] compilation album.^[3][4] Michael Campbell, in his book Popular Music in America defines that genre as "post-punk/post-disco fusion."^[5] Campbell also cited Robert Christgau, who described dance-oriented rock (or DOR) as umbrella term used by various DJs in 1980s.

However, Allmusic defines "dance-rock" as 1980s and 1990s music practised by rock musicians, influenced by Philly soul, disco, and funk, fusing those styles with rock and dance. Artists like The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, INXS, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Clash, New Order and Devo belong, according to Allmusic, to this genre. Dance-rock embraces some experimental funk acts like A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four, and also musicians, for example Robert Palmer and Hall & Oates. This kind of dance-rock influenced Garbage, No Doubt, Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters,^[6] Franz Ferdinand, and The Killers.^[7]

See also

• Alternative dance
• Electronic rock
• Dance-punk

References

1. ^ The Fader (University of Michigan): 38. 2002. http://www.google.com/books?id=Y2-fAAAAMAAJ&q=No+GDM+gina+X++post-disco+++The+Fader&dq=No+GDM+gina+X++post-disco+++The+Fader. "[the] classic post-disco track "No GDM" by Gina X" 
2. ^ Fink, Robert (2005). Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music As Cultural Practice. University of California Press. p. 26. ISBN 0520245504. 
3. ^ Albums "Disco Not Disco [2000"]. Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r560174 Albums. Retrieved 2009-08-10. 
4. ^ Battaglia, Andy (2008). "Album Reviews: VA - Disco Not Disco (Post-Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics)". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11055-disco-not-disco-post-punk-electro-leftfield-disco-classics-1974-1986. Retrieved 2009-08-13. 
5. ^ Campbell, Michael (2008). Popular Music in America: And the Beat Goes On. Cengage Learning. p. 359. ISBN 0495505307. 
6. ^ "Explore music… Genre: Dance-Rock". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/d13748. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 
7. ^ Paoletta, Michael (December 25, 2004). "Music [Dance]: Mash-Ups, Dance-Rock Lead Breakthroughs". Billboard Magazine (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.): 38. ISSN 0006-2510.