Dance Song

The expression dance song has the following meanings that basically relate dance to the song.

  • A danceable song; see dance music, dancing music.
  • A song concerning itself almost entirely with a particular dance. In most cases most or all of the song lyric is given over to instructions for the associated dance; see Category:Instructional dance songs.

Famous quotes containing the words dance and/or song:

    “The author’s conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “I could take the Harlem night
    and wrap around you,
    Take the neon lights and make a crown,
    Take the Lenox Avenue buses,
    Taxis, subways,
    And for your love song tone their rumble down.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)