Dance Music

Dance Music Music intended to accompany social dancing, usually associated with ballroom dances like the fox-trot. It became a staple of record producers worldwide beginning with the dance craze in America just before World War I, and exhibited a continuous tradition through the Big band era. The Victor 1917 catalog listed these varieties of dances: barn dances, buck dances, cakewalks, Castle dances, clog dances, fox-trots, furlena, globe trot, half and half, jigs, London taps, one-steps…