house music

noun

1. an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.

House music

noun

1. a type of disco music originating in the late 1980s, based on funk, with fragments of other recordings edited in electronically

Word History and Origins

Origin of House music¹

1985–90; probably after the Ware house , a dance club in Chicago