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Popular Culture [Monday, March 5, 7th period]

The class had a disco ball. A disco ball right at the center of the room. "This isn't going to be much of a class -- I'll just explain this type of music and then let you have a go at dancing. Because that's what music is about, isn't it? Experiencing it?

So, techno-- it's a genre of electronic music gained some popularity during thelate 1980s as all of you can possibly tell the term 'techno' comes fromthe word technology, the electronic dance genre has four other distinctmusic styles -- House (this one has controversial roots, supposedly used in underground clubsknown as the Warehouse, for gay men back when such a thing was controversial) combines synthpop, new wave, industrial, punk recordings nd disco; Trance was developed in the early 1990s, one of the more popular club music,so called for it's and I quote 'repetitious morphing beats, and thethrobbing melodies' and if repeated over and over can turn any of us into jolly dancing zombies."

She turned the volume down, "Here's you're assignment for this class, I want you all to write a paper onmusic, which musical genre developed this past 50 years you like andwhich do you think has had the most impact in this generation."

Rose clapped her hands, "Right, enough technobabble, this is dance musicwhich can be heard at any club worth its salt in this generation," she dimmed the lights and turned up the volume, "Like the saying goes, experience is the best teachers, so class -- let's dance!"

(please wait for OCD up)