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house music

American

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.

House music British

noun

a 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

Example Sentences

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Raddon ventures away from his standard four-on-the-floor house music and into broken beats on “Started Over.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

"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

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

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