Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. 🧲 It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing 🧲 from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what 🧲 is sometimes called a live PA. Since its inception EDM has expanded to include a wide range of subgenres.

In the 🧲 late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radio, PartyCrews, underground festivals and an upsurge of interest 🧲 in club culture, EDM achieved mainstream popularity in Europe. However, rave culture was not as broadly popular in the United 🧲 States; it was not typically seen outside of the regional scenes in New York City, Florida, the Midwest, and California. 🧲 Although both electro and Chicago house music were influential both in Europe and the United States, mainstream media outlets and 🧲 the record industry remained openly hostile to it. There was also a perceived association between EDM and drug culture, which 🧲 led governments at state and city levels to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture.[3]

Subsequently, 🧲 in the new millennium, the popularity of EDM increased globally, particularly in the United States and Australia. By the early 🧲 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music 🧲 press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture.[3] Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the 🧲 acronym remains in use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including dance-pop, house, techno, electro and trance, as well 🧲 as their respective subgenres.[4][5][6]

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Various EDM genres have evolved over the last 40 years, for example; house, techno, 🧲 drum and bass, dance-pop etc. Stylistic variation within an established EDM genre can lead to the emergence of what is 🧲 called a subgenre. Hybridization, where elements of two or more genres are combined, can lead to the emergence of an 🧲 entirely new genre of EDM.[4]