I love the blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and during 2016 they posted a series of short articles titled Dancing music in the C20, expertly detailing the lineage of dance music during the 20th Century through some of the more and less obvious music genres.
I always refer to these during teaching but due to the way their site is set up it’s hard to quickly (and chronologically) find them all in one go, so I’m using this article to merely “dump” them in one place.
I might add to it as time goes on and hopefully add some value of my own, but for now see this as just a place where I (or you, or anyone) can easily access them all in one go.
- Dancing music in the C20: ragtime (1900-13)
- Dancing music in the C20: blues (1914-17)
- Dancing music in the C20: jazz (1917-18)
- Dancing music in the C20: big band (1919-24)
- Dancing music in the C20: boogie woogie (1924-28)
- Dancing music in the C20: swing (1928-31)
- Dancing music in the C20: western swing (1931-36)
- Dancing music in the C20: jump blues (1938-45)
- Dancing music in the C20: rhythm & blues (1944-46)
- Dancing music in the C20: rock ‘n’ roll (1947-52)
- Dancing music in the C20: Yoruba music (1951-68)
- Dancing music in the C20: northern soul (1960-64)
- Dancing music in the C20: funk (1965-67)
- Dancing music in the C20: tropicália (1967-69)
- Dancing music in the C20: afrobeat (1969-71)
- Dancing music in the C20: disco (1972-73)
- Dancing music in the C20: P-funk (1974-75)
- Dancing music in the C20: space disco (1976-77)
- Dancing music in the C20: dancehall (1977-79)
- Dancing music in the C20: electro (1980-81)
- Dancing music in the C20: house (1982-83)
- Dancing music in the C20: miami bass (1984-86)
- Dancing music in the C20: new beat (1986-88)
- Dancing music in the C20: acid techno (1988-91)
- Dancing music in the C20: gabber 1991-92
- Dancing music in the C20: jungle (1992-93)
- Dancing music in the C20: garage (1993-97)
- Dancing music in the C20: microhouse (1997-99)
