what is edm

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. EDM encompasses styles such as house music, disco music, synthpop, techno, trance music, drum and bass, dubstep, and trap, among others. It gained mainstream popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Europe and later in the United States and Australia. The term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture