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Overview

The term New Wave itself is a source of much confusion. It was introduced in 1976 in Great Britain by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren as an alternative label for what was also being called "punk". The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew Edwards on January 22 1946 in London) is an English Impresario and musician The term referenced the avant-garde, stylish French New Wave film movement of the 1960s. "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band. The label was soon picked up by British punk fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue and then the professional music press. Sniffin' Glue is the name of a famous and pioneering monthly Punk zine started by Mark Perry in July 1976 and released for about a year ^[1] Thus, the term "New Wave" was initially interchangeable with "punk".

In the United States, Seymour Stein, the head of Sire Records, needed a term by which he could market his newly signed bands, who had frequently played the club CBGB. Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Sire Records Company is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros CBGB ( Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan Because radio consultants in the U.S. had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad (and because many stations that had embraced disco had been hurt by the backlash), Stein settled on the term "New Wave". The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Disco is a Genre of dance-oriented music whose origins are hard to define Like those film makers, his new artists, such as Ramones and Talking Heads, were anti-corporate, experimental, and from a generation that had grown up as critical consumers of the art they now practiced. The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group Talking head Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991

Soon, listeners began to differentiate some of these musicians from "true punks". The music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, in writing about the Boomtown Rats, has indicated that the term New Wave became an industry catch-all for musicians affiliated with the punk movement, but in some way different from it:^[2]

The Rats didn’t conform precisely to the notional orthodoxies of punk, but then neither did many other bands at the forefront of what those who were scared of the uncompromising term 'punk' later bowdlerized to New Wave. Charles Shaar Murray (born 1951 is an English Music Journalist. The Boomtown Rats were a new wave group led by Bob Geldof. All six members were originally from Dún Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland. The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United You weren’t allowed to have long hair! The Ramones did. The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group Guitar solos verboten! The defence calls Television. Television, formed in New York City in 1973 is an American Rock music band Facial hair a capital offence! Two members of The Stranglers are in mortal danger. Facial hair is a Secondary sex characteristic in human Males Many Men start developing facial hair in the later years of Puberty, approximately The Stranglers are an English rock music group formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. Age police on the prowl for wrinklies on the run! Cells await Ian Dury, Knox from The Vibrators and most of The Stranglers. Ian Robins Dury ( 12 May 1942 &ndash 27 March 2000) was an English Rock and roll singer songwriter and Bandleader The Vibrators are an original and long-lived British Punk rock band that formed in 1976. Pedal steel guitars and country music too inextricably linked with Laurel Canyon coke-hippies and snooze-inducing Mellow Mafia singer/songwriterismo. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Laurel Canyon is a canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Elvis Costello, you’re busted. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry

Music that followed the anarchic garage band ethos of the Sex Pistols was distinguished as "punk", while music that tended toward experimentation, lyrical complexity, or more polished production, was categorised as "New Wave". The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 This came to include musicians who had come to prominence in the British pub rock scene of the mid-1970s, such as Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr Feelgood; ^[3] acts associated with the New York club CBGBs, such as Television, Patti Smith, and Blondie; and singer-songwriters who were noted for their barbed lyrical wit, such as Elvis Costello, Tom Robinson and Joe Jackson. Nick Lowe (born Nicholas Drain Lowe, March 24 1949, Walton-on-Thames) is an English Singer-songwriter, Musician Eddie and the Hot Rods is a pub rock band from Essex founded in 1975. Dr Feelgood are a British pub rock band, which was formed in mid 1971 CBGB ( Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30 1946 is an American Singer-songwriter and poet Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 60 million records Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics Tom Robinson (born June 1, 1950, in Cambridge) is an English singer/ Songwriter and broadcaster probably best-known Joe Jackson (born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954 Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter Furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed New Wave. A 1977 Phonogram compilation album of the same name (New Wave) features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads and The Runaways. The Dead Boys were an American Punk rock band from Cleveland Ohio. The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group Talking head Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991 The Runaways was a teenage American all-girl Rock band that performed in the 1970s ^[4]

Later still, "New Wave" came to imply a less noisy, more pop sound, and to include acts manufactured by record labels, while the term post-punk was coined to describe the darker, less pop-influenced groups, as Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure and The Psychedelic Furs. Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band which formed in 1976 The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in 1977 Although distinct, punk, New Wave, and post-punk all shared common ground: an energetic reaction to the supposedly overproduced, uninspired popular music of the 1970s.

Tom Petty (probably in jest) has taken credit for "inventing" New Wave. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist He has been quoted as saying that journalists struggled to define his band, The Heartbreakers, recognising they were not punk rock, but still wanting to identify them with Elvis Costello and the Sex Pistols. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are an American rock band formed in 1975 by Tom Petty Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 He also suggests – again, probably half-jokingly – that the song "When the Time Comes" from the You’re Gonna Get It! album (1978) "might have started New Wave. Maybe that was the one. "^[5]

Definition of New Wave in the United States

New Wave in the United States is a popular catchall term used to describe music that emerged in the late 1970s and crested during the 1982-1983 period in what was dubbed the second British Invasion when groups deemed “New Wave” scored high on the charts. The artists deemed “New Wave” in the late 1970s such as Elvis Costello, The Police, Gary Numan, and Squeeze dovetails with the original definition of the genre. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry The Police were a three-piece rock band consisting of Sting ( vocals, Bass guitar) Andy Summers ( Guitar, Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958 is an English singer composer and musician Squeeze are an English band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s and continued recording successfully Starting in the early 1980’s and continuing until around 1988 the term New Wave was used in America to describe nearly every new pop/rock artist, especially those that used synthesizers. Examples of artists defined in the United States as New Wave during this period that would not fit the original definition include Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, The Fixx, Adam and the Ants, Tears For Fears, Human League, Naked Eyes and Culture Club. Duran Duran are an English Pop rock band famous for a long series of popular singles, albums and vivid Music videos for which they've won two A Flock of Seagulls (also known as Flock of Seagulls) are an English band originally formed by brothers Mike Score ( keyboards, Vocals Depeche Mode (dəˌpɛʃˈmoʊd are an English Electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as The Eurythmics) is a British Musical duo, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and Dave The Fixx are an English new wave band They are one of the few bands to have enjoyed significant success outside their country of origin notably in the Tears for Fears (sometimes informally abbreviated to TFF are Naked Eyes was an English Synthpop band popular in the 1980s The duo is known for their singles a cover of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David Culture Club were a Grammy Award -winning British pop group that formed in the early 1980s The term continues to be used today to describe those groups. ^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

New Wave revivals

In the early 1990s, the British music weekly NME grouped together a number of guitar-based bands under the unwieldy banner New Wave of New Wave. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW was a term coined by Music journalists to describe a sub-genre of the British Alternative rock scene in the early 90s These groups, including S*M*A*S*H, These Animal Men, Elastica and Echobelly, drew on the aesthetics of 1970s New Wave, including spiky guitars, tight-fitting suits and skinny ties. Smash (often typeset as S*M*A*S*H) are a Punk rock trio who enjoyed brief notoriety in the early 1990s in the UK. These Animal Men were a UK band achieving minor fame in the 1990s as part of the New Wave of New Wave and splitting after 2 albums in 1998. For the theory relating to large scale deformations of elastic structures see Elastica Theory. Echobelly are an English Alternative rock band They were brought to prominence after much praise by singer Morrissey who asked them to be the opening act on Aesthetics or esthetics ( also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values sometimes called

In the late 1990s, the Omaha, Nebraska-based band The Faint drew heavily upon New Wave to create its debut album Media, released on Saddle Creek Records in 1998. The Faint is a Dance-punk / new wave band Formed in Omaha Nebraska, the band consists of Todd Fink, Jacob Thiele, Dapose Media is the first studio album by New Wave revivalists The Faint. In the first decade of the 21st century, the electroclash scene in Brooklyn and London (at clubs like Nag Nag Nag and Beyond Club) revived the synth-pop aesthetic for kids born in the 1980s. Electroclash is a style of Music that fuses Nag Nag Nag was a former London club night at the late Simon Hobart 's Ghetto nightclub founded by veteran DJ promoter and musician Jonny Slut. Many other indie rock bands re-popularized New Wave sounds as part of the post-punk revival movement with varying success, most popularly the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Bravery and New Orleans' Mute Math. Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene The post-punk revival is a movement in Alternative rock of the 2000s where bands draw from of the original sounds and aesthetics of the Post-punk sound of the late Kaiser Chiefs are an English Indie rock band who formed in 1997 Franz Ferdinand is a rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001 The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas Nevada. Formed in 2002 the group consists of Brandon Flowers ( vocals, keyboards The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott, John Conway Anthony Burulcich Michael Zakarin Mute Math is a Grammy Award nominated American rock band from New Orleans, LA that formed in 2003 Other bands who have brought back New Wave music in the new decade have been the Epoxies, theSTART, The Sounds, and Vernian process as well as the re-union of Squeeze. The Epoxies were an American band from Portland, Oregon formed in 2000 TheStart (stylised as theSTART) is an American Synth rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998 The Sounds are a Post-punk revival band from Helsingborg, Sweden founded in 1999 not to be confused with the Finnish band The Sounds from Squeeze are an English band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s and continued recording successfully

New Wave fashion

New Wave fashions on the cover of Blondie's album Parallel Lines. Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 60 million records For lines that are parallel see Parallel (geometry. Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American New Wave

New Wave fashions were a conscious reaction to the hippie styles of the 1960s, which had spilled over into the mainstream by the late 1970s. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world Thus, flares and long hair for men were replaced by more body-conscious clothing and shorter, often spiky, hairstyles. Bell-bottoms is a Trousers that become wider from the Knees downwards The tight-fitting suits and thin ties worn by Blondie on the cover of their album Parallel Lines epitomise the New Wave look, which harks back to the rock and roll styles of the pre-hippie era. For lines that are parallel see Parallel (geometry. Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American New Wave Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African

Another aspect was a desire to embrace contemporary synthetic materials as a protest and celebration of plastic. Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products This involved the use of spandex, bright colors (such as fluorescents), and mass-produced, tawdry jewelry and ornaments, typified by the dayglo aesthetic of the band X-Ray Spex. Spandex or elastane is a Synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity. Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial production) is the production of X-Ray Spex are an English punk band from London that formed in 1976. As a fashion movement, then, New Wave was both a post-modern belief in creative pastiche and a continuation of Pop Art’s satire and fascination with manufacturing. Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic Genre. Pop Art is a visual Art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. An important offshoot of new wave fashion was the New Romantic movement, which emphasized androgyny and extensive use of synthetic-looking cosmetics for both genders. New Romantic was a short- lived Fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the very early 1980s

Media

New Wave styles

• 2 Tone
• Pub rock
• New Romantic
• Synthpop
• Electropop
• Mod Revival
• Power pop
• La Movida Madrileña

Parallel movements

• Coldwave
• Darkwave
• Neue Deutsche Welle
• No Wave

Regional scenes

• New Wave in Yugoslavia

See also

• List of New Wave bands and artists
• New wave of new wave
• Post-punk
• New Romantic

References

1. ^ Gendron, Bernard (2002). 2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a Music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of Ska, Punk rock, Rocksteady New Romantic was a short- lived Fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the very early 1980s Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave and Pop music in which the Synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument The mod revival was a Music genre and Subculture that started in the United Kingdom in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular Musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and Rock music. La Movida Madrileña ( English: The Madrilenian groove) was a sociocultural movement that took place in Madrid during the first ten years after the Coldwave or "ColdPop" initially referred to a French style of Post-punk and early Dark Wave music in the 1980s taking its cue from bands like Joy Dark Wave, also written as Darkwave, is an Umbrella term which refers to a movement that began in the late 1970s coinciding with the popularity of New Wave Neue Deutsche Welle ( New German Wave, often abbreviated NDW) was a genre of German music originally derived from Punk rock No Wave was a short-lived but influential Art music, Film, Performance art, Video and Contemporary art scene that had its beginnings See also New Wave music The following list of artists that were involved with the New Wave movement of the late 1970s and the 1980s. The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW was a term coined by Music journalists to describe a sub-genre of the British Alternative rock scene in the early 90s Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s New Romantic was a short- lived Fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the very early 1980s Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press), pp. 269–270.
2. ^ Murray, Charles Shaar. Sleevenotes to CD reissue of The Boomtown Rats, reproduced at [1]. The Boomtown Rats was The Boomtown Rats ' first album and included the Rat's first hit single "Lookin' After No Accessed January 21, 2007. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
3. ^ Adams, Bobby. Nick Lowe: A Candid Interview, Bomp magazine, January 1979, reproduced at [2]. Accessed January 21, 2007. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
4. ^ Savage, Jon. (1991) England's Dreaming, Faber & Faber
5. ^ Zollo, Paul. (2005) Conversations with Tom Petty, Omnibus
6. ^ 1984 Article by music journalist Robert Christgau
7. ^ 1986 Knight Ridder news article
8. ^ Where Are They Now: '80s New Wave Musicians ABC News 29 November 2007
9. ^ Definition by Allmusic.com
10. ^ Top 100 New Wave Songs listing with definition of the genre
11. ^ 1984 New York Times Review of Simple Minds

External links

• About.com Profile of the New Wave Genre – another, slightly different, definition and history of New Wave.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Definition
• Punk 2 New Wave Top 100 list and short reviews
• Rolling Stone Magazine's Rock and Roll Daily blog Favorite 1980's New Wave Lists Reporters, Readers