The History Of House Music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities across North and South America, as well as Europe and later Australia.^[1] Early house music commercial success in Europe saw songs such as "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House (1987) and "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut (1988) in the pop charts. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance musicworldwide.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music

Dance genre - Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

Here is a list of some of the sub genres of the dance genre:

•        Trance
•        Garage
•        House-deep house-progressive house
•        Electro
•        Indie
•        Dub step
•        Techno
•        Jungle
•        Drum and bass
•        Electronica
•        Trap  

  Faithless - insomnia is a mix of House, Trance and dream house.

History of house:
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities across North and South America, as well as Europe and later Australia. Early house music commercial success in Europe saw songs such as "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House (1987) and "Doctorin' the house" by Coldcut (1988) in the pop charts. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and Dance music worldwide.