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Swedish House Mafia will become the first ever dance headliners at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York this September, Kaytranada and Justice are hitting the road together for a co-headlining tour that starts in October,
TikTok suggested that its users were turning to electronic music as a soundtrack for specific types of clips, such as sport, fitness and fashion, as well as travel content and summer holiday recaps.
The fusion of electro pop, hip hop and dance music ensconced itself as an underground counterculture when the previous alternative movements became dominant cultural forces. Freestyle emerged sometime after the late ’70s dance music heyday remembered for artists like Donna Summer and the Bee Gees, and movies like Saturday Night Fever.
Made between 2013 and 2023, the doc looks at the rise and fall of dance music in the U.K., the Netherlands and Ibiza in the 1980s and ’90s, then tracks the genre’s explosion in popularity in the early 2010s, an era commonly referred to as the EDM boom.
As night falls in the city of Eau Claire, a thriving music industry awakens. Electronic dance music (EDM) has evolved from a niche subculture to a developing scene with diverse sub-genres which allow artists to find their light on the stage.