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Dance-pop
Stylistic origins	Pop; Post-disco; New Wave; Synthpop; R&B; Electropop; Electronica; House; Minneapolis sound; Jazz
Cultural origins	Early 1980s
Typical instruments	Drum machine • Keyboards • Synthesizers • Vocals (sometimes Rapping)
Mainstream popularity	Moderate in both the U.S. & UK in the 1980]s. Highly popular in the U.S. & UK since late 1990's.
Derivative forms	Eurodance • Europop • Alternative Dance • New Jack Swing and modern Bubblegum pop
Subgenres
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Fusion genres
	house-pop
Other topics
	Boy bands • Girl group • Eurodance • Teen pop • Stock, Aitken & Waterman

Dance-pop is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of pop music that evolved from post-disco era, circa 1981, that combines dance beats with a pop, house and/or R&B song structure. Because there is such an emphasis on fully-formed songs in dance-pop, it is often viewed as a separate classification unto itself apart from pure dance music.^[2] Dance-pop is also closely related to the teen pop and Eurodance movements in the mid-80s and late 1990s, the rise of boy bands and girl groups, and the reintroduction of the vocoder and similar such innovations.

Like its disco forebear, dance-pop is often viewed by musical historians as a producer's medium, as a great many musicians and songwriting teams arose from the genre. Musicians like André Cymone and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (all of whom had been musically connected with Prince) and Patrick Leonard (who'd been a member of the band Trillion), as well as DJs like Jellybean Benitez^{[citation needed]} and Shep Pettibone^{[citation needed]} became stars in their own right due to the sleek productions they lavished on artists like Madonna, Jody Watley^[3] and Janet Jackson. Another dance-pop production team of note is Stock Aitken and Waterman, who sculpted polished production for the likes of Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley and Bananarama. Indeed, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, (both of whom had been stars in the disco era as part of the group Chic), were able to flourish as producers of material for newer artists in Dance-pop's rise.

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^ Smay, David & Cooper, Kim (2001). Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears: "... think about Stock-Aitken-Waterman and Kylie Minogue. Dance pop, that's what they call it now — Post-Disco, post-new wave and incorporating elements of both." Feral House: Publisher, p. 327. ISBN 0922915695.
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[0] Smay, David & Cooper, Kim (2001). Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears: "... think about Stock-Aitken-Waterman and Kylie Minogue. Dance pop, that's what they call it now — Post-Disco, post-new wave and incorporating elements of both." Feral House: Publisher, p. 327. ISBN 0922915695.

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