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No wave

No wave was an avant-garde music and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. The term was coined as a rejection of commercial new wave music. No wave musicians took rock instrumentation and experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality, as well as non-rock genres like free jazz, funk, and disco. The scene often…

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Cultural origins
Late 1970s, New York City
Derivative forms
Avant-funk
Stylistic origins
Punk rock · avant-garde · noise · funk · disco

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No wave

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related to Sources · 29
No wave → Alison, Art Music, Authorship, Black Dog Publishing, Chicago, Chicago Press, Contort Yourself, Dispute, Faber, Historiography, ISBN, London, Ltd, Marc, Masters, Michigan Press, Minimalism, Nickleson, No Wave New York, Patrick
related to Influences · 27
No wave → Additionally, Although, Andy Warhol's Factory, As, Captain Beefheart, Cromagnon, Godz, Iggy Pop, John Cale, LaMonte Young, Lou Reed, LP No Record, Mixing, New York, New York City, New York-based, Nihilist Spasm Band, NO, NO Movie, Pitchfork's Marc Masters
related to Music compilations · 22
No wave → ALP39CD, Antilles, Atavistic, B000B63ISEJust Another Asshole, Barbara Ess, CD, Glenn BrancaNoise Fest Tape, HarvestworksN, Homestead Records HMS-011All Guitars, Lilith, LP, No New York, Noise, Soul Jazz B000CHYHOGNew York, Soul Jazz B000HEZ5CC, Soul Jazz Records B00009OYSENew, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine, TSoWC, Vol, White ColumnsSpeed Trials
related to Cinema · 21
No wave → Andy Warhol, Avant-garde, Bernardo Bertolucci's, DIY, East Village, European, French Nouvelle Vague, Handheld Super, Italian, Jack Smith, Jean-Pierre Melville, Last Tango, Lower East Side's, Musicians, No Wave Cinema, Paris, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rooted, This
related to Visual art · 15
No wave → Alan Vega, An, Asshole, Barbara Ess's Just Another, Colab's, Important, Island, Martin Rev, Negative Utopia, Suicide, The Kitchen, The Real Estate Show, The Times Square Show, They, Visual
related to Kansai no wave · 13
No wave → Aunt Sally, Hide, Inu, Japanese, Japanoise, Jojo Hiroshige, Kansai, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, SS, The, Ultra Bide
related to Characteristics · 12
No wave → According, Anderson, Chuck Berry, Downtown Manhattan's, In, La Monte Young's, New York's, No, Steve Anderson, There, Village Voice, ZE Records's Mutant Disco
related to External links · 11
No wave → Cinema, June, Kill Your Idols, New York, New York No Wave, Photo Archive Archived, Post-Punk, Thurston Moore, Transgression, Underground, Wayback MachineOfficial MySpace
related to Chicago no wave · 10
No wave → Brise-Glace, Chicago, Flying Luttenbachers, Illinois, Maple, New York City, Other, Scissor Girls, The, Weasel Walter
Stylistic origins · 9
No wave → art rock, avant-garde, disco, experimental rock, free jazz, funk, jazz, noise, Punk rock

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wave new york scene music noise art jazz artists city 1970s film rock movement cinema visual moore punk 1980s early

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No waveCultural originsLate 1970s, New York City1.00infobox
No waveDerivative formsAvant-funk1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsPunk rock1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsavant-garde1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsnoise1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsfunk1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsdisco1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsjazz1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsfree jazz1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsexperimental rock1.00infobox
No waveStylistic originsart rock1.00infobox
mutant discoinstance ofmusical developments0.80text

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