Origins and early development
In the late 1960s bands such as Silver Apples created electronic music intended for dancing. Other early examples of music that influenced later electronic dance music include Jamaican dub music during the late 1960s to 1970s, the synthesizer-based disco of Italian producer Giorgio Moroder in the late 1970s, and the electropop of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra in the mid-to-late 1970s.
Evolution or diversification
Various EDM genres have evolved over the last 40 years, for example; house, techno, drum and bass, dance-pop etc. During the late 1980s to early 1990s, following the emergence of electronic music instruments, rave culture, pirate radio, party crews, underground festivals, and an upsurge of interest in club culture, EDM achieved mainstream popularity in Europe and Japan. Stylistic variation within an established EDM genre can lead to the emergence of what is called a subgenre, and hybridization where elements of two or more genres are combined can lead to the emergence of an entirely new genre of EDM.
Cultural or musical significance
Although the pioneer genres of electro, Chicago house and Detroit techno were influential both in Europe and the United States, mainstream media outlets and the record industry in the United States remained openly hostile to it until the 1990s and beyond. There was also a perceived association between EDM and drug culture, which led governments at state and city levels to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture. In the new millennium the popularity of EDM increased globally and by the early 2010s the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music press as an umbrella term for multiple genres including dance-pop, house, techno, electro and trance.
