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  2. New wave music - Wikipedia

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    Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic sounds, and a distinctive visual style in music videos and fashion. [30] According to Simon Reynolds, new wave music had a twitchy, agitated feel. New wave musicians often played choppy rhythm guitars with fast tempos; keyboards, and stop ...

  3. New wave music - en.wikipedia.org

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    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 .

  4. Synth-pop - Wikipedia

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    Despite synth-pop's origins in the late 1970s among new wave bands like Tubeway Army and Devo, British journalists and music critics largely abandoned the term "new wave" in the early 1980s. [76] This was in part due to the rise of new artists unaffiliated with the preceding punk/new wave era, as well as aesthetic changes associated with synth ...

  5. List of new wave artists - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.

  6. New wave of British heavy metal - Wikipedia

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    The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s.

  7. Synthwave - Wikipedia

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    Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth [5]) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s. [2] Other influences are drawn from the decade's art and video games. [3]

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject New Wave music - Wikipedia

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    Welcome to the project page for the WikiProject New Wave music! The aim of this project is to act as a central location for articles relating to New Wave music and genres that could be classified as "New Wave", e.g. synthpop, post-punk, and New Romantic music. This will lead to easier creation and maintenance of articles relating to this genre.

  9. New pop - Wikipedia

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    In the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock (2001), "new wave" is described as a "virtually meaningless" term. [14] By the early 1980s, British journalists had largely abandoned "new wave" in favor of other terms such as "synthpop", [15] and in 1983, the term of choice for the US music industry had become "new music". [16]