This record cover kinda struck me as interesting and got me thinking. Is this possibly the beginning of dance music? What do you consider to be the beginning of dance music?

Well, that's nice and all. I am looking for what songs you think are the beginning of dance music.

EDIT: I just realized. There's no way to pinpoint the beginning because all the way back to ragtime and the gay 1890's, that was considered dance music for the day. Technically any music you can dance to is considered dance music.

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Well, dance music has been around since the beginning of time. I've heard a lot of house that has a lot of African tribal type stuff in the background, so to me it kinda traces back to that. As far as commercially, Scott Blackwell and Prodigal Sons were probably the first I ever heard, so for me that would have to be the start..

To clarify, Musique concrète was a style, not an artist. But yes, generally considered the forerunners.

Pierre Schaeffer was supposedly the first to use Turntables:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer

Dance music has been around as long as music.  The Hebrews had their form of dance music before there was even such a thing as a Jew.  The first thing they did after crossing the Red Sea is dance to music.  The Psalms is full of the lyrics to a lot of dance music.  I wouldn't be surprised to find out Jesus would dance to music sung by the angelic choir under the direction of Lucifer long "before" (for lack of better term) time even existed.

As for electronic music on the other hand, well most people I've talked to who have researched it would say Kraftwerk should get that credit, but truth be told it was probably Benjamin Franklin when he discovered electricity by flying that kite during a thunderstorm and got struck by lightning and began to sing, "Aaaaaaahhhhh".

These last two posts are confusing and weird... ?