Dance Music history

Disco: Seventies Disco was born on Valentine's Day 1970, when David Manusco opened The Loft in New York City, and it rapidly faded in 1980. When the Disco movement peaked in 1978-79, the demographic was predominantly white, heterosexual, urban and suburban middle class. Discotheques played vinyl records on powerful sound systems for non-stop dancing. Elaborate strobe disco lighting systems throbbed to the beat of the music.

House: Back in the early 1980s, Chicago club and radio DJ's were playing various styles of dance and disco music. In the mid 1980s and 1990s, house music became a major fixation on the UK music charts. In the past decade, house music has become very popular in America because many artists have crossed over to the mainstream. 

Techno: The template for a new style of dance music (that by the mid to late 1980's was being referred to as techno) was developed by four individuals, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May , and Eddie Fowlkes, all of whom attended school together at Belleville High, near Detroit, Michigan. 

EDM: Electronic dance music is a set of percussive music genres that largely stem from the production methods of disco music, techno music, house music, and trance music. Such music was popularized via regional nightclub scenes in the 1980s, the warehouse party scene of the late 1980s, and the early rave scene of the acid house movement in the late 1980s.

Dance pop: Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio.