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Dansband ("dance band") is a Swedish term for a band that plays dansbandsmusik ("dance band music"). ''Dansbandsmusik'' is often danced to in pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired by swing, schlager, country, jazz, and rock. The main influence for rock-oriented bands is the rock music of the 1950s and 1960s. The terms ''dansband'' and ''dansbandsmusik'' were coined around 1970, when Swedish popular music developed a signature style. The genre developed primarily in Sweden, but has spread to neighbouring countries Denmark, Norway and the Swedish speaking regions of Finland. When the music came to Norway it was first called "Svensktoppar" (from the Swedish radio music chart Svensktoppen, which was a major arena for dansband music before its rules changed in January 2003). A dansband often travels by bus, performing several times every week year-round, outdoors in the summertime and indoors in the wintertime. Performances may also be held on a boat. Several dansbands are named after their lead singer (whose name is sometimes shortened), followed by ''orkester''. The tradition origins from the old dance orchestras, often named after their Kapellmeister. The possessive suffix "s" is often replaced by "z" in dansband names. Some dansbands are named after earlier members. The main audience for dansband music is middle-aged adults. The music is often performed live by the bands at venues where the main interest of the audience is dancing, rather than watching the performance on stage. However, many dansbands also record albums and singles. ==Lyrics== Dansband lyrics are often brightly characterized, and are mostly about love, friendship and peace. Other lyrics are about dancing. Some of the song texts are inspired by national romanticism, with lyrics about things such as old memories from the past, nature, or native districts. Romantic dansband lyrics are reminiscent of pop, where the singer declares his or her love for the person being sung to, but are often more focused on growing old together and living together until one of them dies. The Norwegian dansband Ole Ivars has also, much with humor, written lyrics that are more about society than traditional dansband lyrics. The lyrics are often in Swedish in Sweden, and in Norwegian in Norway. In the 1990s, special "dansband songwriters" broke through, among them Lasse Holm, Gert Lengstrand and Torgny Söderberg. For many years, the same person wrote songs for most bands, but soon dansband musicians became more involved in songwriting.〔Livets band, Leif Eriksson och Martin Bogren, Prisma 2008, page 65-68 - ''Ett eget skrå''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dansband」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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