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

Example Sentences

Everyone dressed as if for Sunday morning service — but the event morphed midway into a Sunday afternoon tea dance, with the crowd grooving under the disco balls to gospel-inflected house music, evoking the roof-raising atmosphere that made the club famous back in the day.

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“I felt like that was full circle for me because I had gone to the Mayan for house music as well. I had been a fan of DJ Irene since the ‘90s.

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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.

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Part of the joy of late night Glasto is that it attracts everyone - as I take a walk round Block 9 I see a woman covered in top to toe glitter enjoying some house music next to a man in a Liverpool shirt.

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It was also at Loughborough where Cook dabbled in his other love - house music.

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