no wave
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A punning rejection of the more commercial new wave movement.
Noun[edit]
- (music) A broad musical and artistic movement originating in the mid-1970s in New York City, typified by experimentation and performance art.
- 2020, “Jinx”, in Timmy's Unbuttoned Gen X Meditations, performed by Good Fuck:
- To dream that tall, mean, vegan Jeff, in turtlenecks and chinos like Sterling Morrison, was the only one I talked to at all the no wave shows I went to alone.