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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture".[4] It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock.[30][31] Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles, including synth-pop, alternative dance and post-punk.[15][32][31] The main new wave movement coincided with late 1970s punk and continued into the early 1980s.[32]

This article is about the 1970s–1980s music genre. For other New Wave artistic movements, see List of New Wave movements.

The common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, angular guitar riffs, jerky rhythms, the use of electronics, and a distinctive visual style in fashion.[31][5] In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop and rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave" in the United States.[31] Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy, the musicians were more influenced by the styles of the 1950s along with the lighter strains of 1960s pop and were opposed to the generally abrasive, political bents of punk rock, as well as what was considered to be creatively stagnant "corporate rock".[5]


New wave commercially peaked from the late 1970s into the early 1980s with numerous major musicians and an abundance of one-hit wonders. MTV, which was launched in 1981, heavily promoted new-wave acts, boosting the genre's popularity in the United States.[31] In the UK, new wave faded at the beginning of the 1980s with the emergence of the New Romantic movement.[32] In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic, new pop, and new music genres.[33][34] Since the 1990s, new wave resurged several times with the growing nostalgia for several new-wave-influenced musicians.[35][36][37]

History

Forerunners

The Velvet Underground have also been heralded for their influence on new wave, post-punk and alternative rock.[52][53] Roxy Music were also influential to the genre as well as the works of David Bowie, Iggy Pop[54] and Brian Eno.[55]

Early 1970s

The term "new wave" is regarded as so loose and wide-ranging as to be "virtually meaningless", according to the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock.[56] It originated as a catch-all for the music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself,[31] in Britain. Scholar Theo Cateforis said that the term was used to commercialize punk groups in the media:

Cateforis, Theo (2011). . The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3. Retrieved 4 June 2014.

Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

Coon, Caroline. 1988: the New Wave Punk Rock Explosion. London: Orbach and Chambers, 1977.  0-8015-6129-9.

ISBN

Bukszpan, Daniel. The Encyclopedia of New Wave. , 2012. ISBN 978-1-4027-8472-9

Sterling Publishing

Campion, Chris (7 January 2010). . Wiley. ISBN 9780470627839.

Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave

Majewski, Lori: Bernstein, Jonathan Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s. , 15 April 2014. ISBN 978-1-4197-1097-1

Abrams Image

– the original page dedicated to new wave music since 1996

New Wave Complex

statistics and tagging at Last.FM

New wave albums

statistics and tagging at Last.FM

New wave tracks

Sounds of the 70s, Series 2, Episode 10

BBC Two - Sounds of the 70s 2, New Wave - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick

Encyclopædia Britannica Definition

(17 April 1978). "A Real New Wave Rolls Out of Ohio". Village Voice.

Christgau, Robert

(22 January 1979). "New Wave Hegemony and the Bebop Question". Village Voice.

Christgau, Robert

Published MTV 7 August 2009

1997 Interview with Brat Pack Film Director John Hughes

Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine A look back at the punk/new wave movement in Poland by the Krakow Post, 1 February 2010

Rock Against the Bloc

. Philippine Inquirer. 7 September 2002. A critic looks back at her teenage fan days in the Philippines and Los Angeles

"Drowning In My Nostalgia"