Nu-disco

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Nu-disco is a sub-genre in the dance music of the 21st century that is associated with renewed interest in disco made in the 1970s. By the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, the moniker was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno, and is often associated with edits or re-edits. It is used most often in association with European dance music producers who make music inspired by American disco, electro and other genres popular in the late 70s and early 80s but it is also used to describe several American labels that were previously associated with the subgenres electroclash and deep house.

Nu, like "leftfield", is used as a qualifier to disassociate the sub-genre from popular ideas about the disco genre.

Kembrew McLeod in an essay entitled "Genres, Subgenres, Sub-sungenres and More" (JOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES, 13: 59–75, 2001) suggested that the "the naming of new subgenres can be linked to a variety of influences, such as the rapidly evolving nature of the music, accelerated consumer culture, and the synergy created by record company marketing strategies and music magazine hype. The appropriation of the musics of minorities by straight, middleand upper-middle-class Whites in the United States and Great Britain plays a part, and the rapid and ongoing naming process within electronic/dance music subcultures acts as a gate-keeping mechanism, as well."

"Nu Disco" was also the title of a song written by the American post-punk band Mission of Burma in 1979.

Another popular genre that has been revived from the 1970s is nu-funk, a modern form of funk music.