电子舞曲EDM / Electronic Dance Music

电子舞曲（Electronic Dance Music）是各种电子音乐的合称，它们的用途往往是在舞厅、派对里用来作跳舞的背景音乐。电子舞曲流派分为House、Techno、Trance、Big Beat、Drum N Bass、Break Beat和Big Beat、Reggae/Ska、Old school/Miami beat、RNB、Tribal、Mambo、Cha Cha、Hip House等等。

电子舞曲(也称为EDM、舞曲、俱乐部音乐或简单的舞蹈)是一种广泛的打击性电子音乐流派，主要为夜总会、狂欢派对和节日制作。EDM通常由音乐节目主持人(DJ)制作用于回放，他们通过从一个记录到另一个记录的顺序来创建无缝的曲目选择，称为MIX。EDM制作人还在音乐会或节日现场表演他们的音乐，有时称为现场PA。

在欧洲，EDM通常被称为“舞曲”或简称为“舞蹈”。在20世纪80年代末90年代初，随着狂欢、盗版电台的出现，以及人们对俱乐部文化的兴趣高涨，EDM在欧洲获得了主流的流行。当时美国对舞蹈文化的接受并不普遍，虽然电子音乐和芝加哥家庭音乐在欧美都有很大的影响力，但主流媒体和唱片业仍然对EDM怀有敌意。人们还认为EDM与毒品文化之间存在关联，这导致州和市两级政府颁布旨在阻止狂欢文化传播的法律和政策。

随后，在新的千年里，包括美国在内的全球范围内，电火花加工的受欢迎程度都有所提高。到了2010年代初，美国音乐界和音乐出版社正在推动“电子舞曲”一词和“EDM”的缩写，以重塑美国狂欢文化的品牌。尽管业界试图创建一个特定的EDM品牌，但缩写仍然被用作多种流派的总称，包括房屋、电子音乐、恍惚、鼓和贝斯、Dubstep以及它们各自的子流派。

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music,club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. EDM is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys (DJs) who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix, by segueing from one recording to another.[4] EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. In Europe, EDM is more commonly called 'dance music' or simply 'dance'.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radio, and an upsurge of interest in club culture, EDM acquired mainstream popularity in Europe. In the United States at that time acceptance of dance culture was not universal, and although both Electro and Chicago house music were hugely influential both in Europe and the USA, mainstream media outlets, and the record industry, remained hostile to EDM. There was also a perceived association between EDM and drug culture which led governments at state and city level to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture.

Subsequently, in the new millennium, the popularity of EDM increased globally, including the United States. By the early 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the United States music industry and music press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture. Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the initialism remains in use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including house, techno, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, and their respective subgenres.