Eurodance en · NOUN
Etymology
From Euro- + dance.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today.
A left field U.S. pick, this combination of big beat Eurodisco (or is that Eurodance now?) and westernized Japanese musical motifs is the unlikely work of a Scottish doctor’s wife and singer of traditional Gaelic folk songs.
1981 November 14, “Singles Review”, in Cash Box, volume XLIII, number 26, →ISSN, page 11:Though the genre's formation took place in several countries across Europe, 20 years later Eurodance became the internationally most widespread popular music from Germany.
2020, Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, David-Emil Wickström, editors, Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN:
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Translations (7)
bg е́вроденс (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · ja ユーロダンス (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · sv eurodisco (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · sv eurodance (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · mr यूरोडान्स (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · ru Евродэнс (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music) · pl eurodance (A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music)