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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 ...
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 ...
- Late 1970s, New York City
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May 19, 2014 · Golden years: This term comes from a sales pitch from the late 1950s, Jaffe explains, a time when retirement began to be idealized as this sort of perpetual vacation.It's not clear who coined it ...
Nov 9, 2019 · The thing is, no wave ended as soon as it began. When something like a movement is driven by nothing but the people within it, with no financial support or ideas to grow, it can quickly die. The people making the music knew this, and they didn’t care. The idea of no wave wasn’t for it to last, that’s part of why it was named the way it was.
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In recent years, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon has become one of the most vocal celebrators of no wave’s legacy, in particular with her experimental noise duo Body/Head, whose 2016 album No Waves references the genre. “When I came to New York, I’d go and see bands downtown playing no wave music,” said Gordon in a 2013 interview in Elle.
Nov 20, 2020 · An academic named John J. DiIulio Jr. coined the term for a November 1995 cover story in The Weekly ... while one in December 1994 warned of a crime wave as America’s teen population swelled. ...
