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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. The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music.
- Late 1970s, New York City
Areas affected. Canada, East Coast of the United States, Midwestern United States. Part of the 2017–18 North American winter. The December 2017–January 2018 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event in North America in which record low temperatures gripped much of the Central, Eastern United States, and parts of Central and ...
- January 18, 2018
- December 23, 2017
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- −45 °F (−43 °C) in Embarrass, MN on December 31
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2017–18 North American winter. The 2017–18 North American winter saw weather patterns across North America that were very active, erratic, and protracted, especially near the end of the season, resulting in widespread snow and cold across the continent during the winter.
- December 21 – March 19
- October 29, 2017
- December 1 – February 28
- April 15, 2018
Feb 6, 2023 · 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 only until 1981. But its influence has proven more long-lasting than the movement itself.
Jan 14, 2008 · In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, No Wave, Pitchfork staff writer Marc Masters details the origins of this brief but still-influential movement.
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 ...
Nov 9, 2019 · “No wave” is defined as a short-lived movement that took place in the late ’70s and early ’80s, almost exclusively in New York, more specifically the Lower East Side of downtown. The movement is different in that the members of the original no wave movement were incredibly resistant to it being defined as such, with people like James ...
