Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing [syn: band, dance orchestra]
Wikipedia
Dance Band is a 1935 British musical film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, June Clyde and Steven Geray.
Dance Band is a musical group based in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. Dance Band was voted City Pages' Best Live Artist of 2007. They have been called "Minnesota's foremost incitement to party", and praised for their ability to "[get] all the cool, nonchalant hipsters out onto the dance floor for serious booty shaking and the occasional synchronized zombie impersonation."
Dance Band's musical style centers on live performance. One band member stated in an interview with the City Pages:
"[W]e're able to respond to people without all the usual tests: recording an album, marketing it, getting really far down the road before you ever see how people come back at you with it. We see how our music works in real life. It's a live show. You want what people want because you want that energy to go back and forth. Because it's dance music, people are participating. You don't have people walking away with heady questions about what happened. They're like, 'That was fun! I'm gonna bring my friends next time.'"
Usage examples of "dance band".
Lambert's Church, in all the bars, and most particularly in Ratinger-Strasse, at the Unicorn, because Bobby, who led the dance band, would sometimes let us join in with our flute and toy drum and was enthusiastic about my drumming, though he himself, despite the finger that was missing from his right hand, was no slouch as a percussion man.
That was at one of those wild parties up there on First Street when they were swilling the bootleg liquor and had a dance band right there in the parlor.
He went out of the room down the hall toward the sound of the dance band.
I'd told the leader of the dance band that jazz was against my religion.
She had been out on Hunt, too, and was as aroused as he by primal bloodlust, the beat of the dance band's drums, and the scent in the air.
Against the booming of the dance band behind us in the apartment across the way a woman's voice suddenly screamed hysterically.
Against the booming of the dance band behind us in the apartment across the way a woman’.
Against the booming of the dance band behind us in the apartment across the way a womans voice suddenly screamed hysterically.