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:

    “You whig emblem, you woman chaser,
    why do you dance over the wide lawn tonight
    clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)