The earliest form of notated dance music dates back to the medieval and baroque period of classical music, which later led to a love of waltzing. The evolution of dance music was very gradual ...

Wealthy households staged their own music events by relying on ... paving the way for subsequent innovations in dance forms and influencing the evolution of social norms and perceptions ...

By this point dance music was fragmenting into a profusion of subgenres, including trance, jungle and dubstep. Early EDM took the most attention-grabbing elements from each and, as perfected by DJ ...