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dance music/dancemusic is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations, shows and raves. The term dance music is usually used for more commercial forms of Electronic dance music. However, both dance music/dancemusic and electronic dance music is made electronically for dancing. Styles include house, Eurodance, jungle, hip house, trance, techno, funk, garage, and many others. Associated with dance music are usually commercial forms that may not easily be pigeonholed, for example "The Power" by Snap! and "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory. Those tracks are characterized by mixing dance music/dancemusic and hip hop. The chorus usually derives from disco music, the music itself consists mainly of very danceable hip hop beats. Electronic dance music/dancemusic experienced a boom after the proliferation of personal computers in the 1980s, many music genres that made use of electronic instruments developed into contemporary styles mainly thanks to the MIDI protocol, which enabled computers, synthesizers, sound cards, samplers and drum machines to control one another and achieve the full synchronization of sounds. Electronic dance music/dancemusic is typically composed using computers and synthesizers, and rarely has any physical instruments. Instead, this is replaced by digital/electronic sounds, with a 4/4 beat. dance music/dancemusic typically ranges from 120bpm, up to 200bpm, with techno, trance, and house being the most widespread. Many producers of this kind of music however, such as Darren Tate and MJ Cole, were trained in classical music before they moved into the electronic medium.

Dancemusicvideos/Dance music videos are short films or videos that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. Modern Dancemusicvideos/Dance music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of Dancemusicvideos/Dance music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV (Music Television)'s format was based around them.

Music videos / musicvideos are often called promo videos or simply promos, due to the fact that they are usually promotional devices. Sometimes, Dancemusicvideos/Dance music videos are termed short-form music videos to distinguish them from full length movies pertaining to music. In the 1980s, the term "rock video" was often used to describe this form of entertainment, although the term has fallen into disuse.

Music videos / musicvideos can accommodate all styles of filmmaking, including animation, live action films, documentaries, and non-narrative, abstract film.