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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Attendees strain their voices talking about elections and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey as they compete with indiscernible house music and the baseball game.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"It was so early in the life cycle of house music coming up from the underground. DJs loved it and all the gay clubs loved it - but there wasn't the media attention."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Nairn is also known for playing Wee John Feeney in the US TV period comedy drama Our Flag Means Death, and is a house music DJ.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
Kwaito, a South African mix of hip-hop and house music, blared from cars that passed us.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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 producers Defected Records hailed Roy as a "great producer, DJ, and friend to so many within our industry".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022
House music thumped from the balconies above at all hours of the day and night.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
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