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    No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene which emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. [4] [5] The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. [6] Reacting against punk rock 's recycling of rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality ...

  2. Mar 1, 2024 · No wave could incorporate everything from the avant-garde compositions of Glenn Branca to the disco and funk imbued on the recordings of Lizzy Mercier Descloux.This diversity within the scene is something of a double-edged sword: on the one hand, you are bound to find at least something that tickles your fancy, but on the other, getting into the genre can be a difficult task.

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  4. Jan 14, 2008 · In the late 1970s, a loose collective of New York bands created a radical reaction to New Wave and Punk that came to be known as No Wave. Led by Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the ...

  5. Nov 9, 2019 · The difference between punk and no wave is that the punks didn’t know how to play their instruments and were trying to make something good out of it, fast and basic, easily consumed by the youth. No wavers didn’t know how to play their instruments and went in the opposite direction, instead making disgusting sounds purely for the sake of chaos.

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  6. Feb 6, 2023 · With its harsh, rhythm-based sounds and nihilistic lyrics, no wave was a fresh and innovative scene among avant-garde artists and noise musicians. Visceral, raw, liberating, no wave is considered New York’s last cohesive, experimental, avant-rock movement. Born in the low-rent district of Manhattan’s lower East Side in 1978, no wave lasted ...

  7. Feb 21, 2023 · The artistic scene known as "no wave" came to light in New York in the late 1970s. It provided a veritable open-air laboratory for a new generation of musicians, filmmakers, visual artists and performers, including James Chance, Alan Vega, Lydia Lunch, Karole Armitage, Sonic Youth, Beth B & Scott B, and Christian Marclay. Out of tune guitars and destructured rhythms enriched a range of ...

  8. Musicology: The History of No Wave. The music created was supposed to be a break in many ways from punk’s origins in 1950s rock ’n’ roll, while still maintaining the spirit of punk. If anything, the music of bands such as Suicide, Mars and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks can be seen as a purposeful deconstruction of rock ’n’ roll, reducing ...

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