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In music, the term "modernism" refers generally to the significant departures in musical language that occurred at or around the beginning of the 20th century, creating new understandings of ...

As such, this genre got its roots in the disco era, but its modern form came of age in the 1980s and 1990s with the arrival of the synthesizer and drum machine.