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Pages in category "American dance music groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.
Territory bands were dance bands that crisscrossed specific regions of the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s. [1] Beginning in the 1920s, the bands typically had 8 to 12 musicians. These bands typically played one-nighters, six or seven nights a week at venues like VFW halls, Elks Lodges , Lions Clubs , hotel ballrooms, and the like.
Madonna is the most successful dance music artist of all time. Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing dance music songs in the United States since 1974. Originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques , the chart began on October 26, 1974, under the title ...
List of articles on disco and dance-music acts from the United States. This category also list references to artists who also charted on Billboard magazine 's Hot Dance Club Songs , Dance/Mix Show Airplay , Hot Dance Singles Sales and Top Electronic Albums charts.
American Bandstand (AB) was an American music-performance and dance television program that aired regularly in various versions from 1952 to 1989. [1] It was hosted by Dick Clark from 1956 until its final season. Clark also served as the program's producer. [2] The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music tracks introduced by Clark.
Anson Weeks (February 14, 1896, Oakland, California – February 7, 1969, Sacramento, California) [1] was an American pianist and the leader of a popular west coast dance band from the late 1920s through the 1960s, primarily in San Francisco. He made his first recording in Oakland on February 7, 1925, but it was not issued.
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North