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:

    “We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “By a knight of ghosts and shadows
    I summon’d am to a tourney
    Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
    Methinks it is no journey.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)