house music
noun
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.
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House musicnouna type of disco music originating in the late 1980s, based on funk, with fragments of other recordings edited in electronically
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Etymology
Origin of house music
1985–90; probably after the Ware house , a dance club in Chicago
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A few tracks later, “Danceteria” channels the spoken-word verses and glittering house music of 1990’s “Vogue.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Wall-to-wall bodies, neon lights and pulsating house music greeted her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
It was also at Loughborough where Cook dabbled in his other love - house music.
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
Beyoncé is bringing back that cowboy culture and really making all the white people in America realize it actually started with Black people, especially the house music too, with the “Renaissance” tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
He’d be up in the morning, blasting house music or hip-hop, practicing moves the whole day.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
House music, the post-disco form with a 4/4 rhythm and rubbery syncopated basslines, is the genre at the center of the LP, but there is plenty of variety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
House music, born in Chicago, brought an electronic foundation to post-disco disco music that has continued, through myriad new subgenres and international offshoots, to inform dance culture to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Laura Bush was a guest of President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at a White House music event on the South Lawn featuring Elton John, a longtime advocate for people with HIV/AIDS.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
House music alternated with the occasional Michael Jackson or Britney Spears song.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2015
House music DJ Judge Jules says it wasn't what was taught in the classroom that made many pupils in his former school successful, it was down to its location in a middle-class area.
From BBC ● May 6, 2011
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