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new wave
Also New Wave.
1. = nouvelle vague. Also (with hyphen) attrib.
1960News Chron. 19 July 6/8 A ‘new wave’ is emerging here [in Spain], too, with an up-to-date philosophy. Ibid. 6 Aug. 6/7 Cy Grant will sing ‘Carnival’ from the French new-wave movie. 1960Guardian 15 Oct. 5/2 The Italian neo-realists..and..the Frenchmen of the ‘New Wave’ have all been pursuing the same course. 1961Sunday Times 12 Feb. 11/8 Blanchflower is the very crest of the New Wave among professional footballers. 1962Spectator 23 Feb. 242/1 Her central situation concerns a new-wave actress. 1967Economist 18 Mar. 1008/2 The new-wave nationalists have not bothered to think out what sort of nationalism they want. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 22/1 As New York's new-wave mayor in 1966, he had portrayed himself as a reform insurgent battling the city's ‘power brokers’. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 1374/2 The defining characteristic of the New Wave, and its ambiguous legacy to all films made since 1958–61, was selfconsciousness... The New Wave brought the film director to the public's immediate attention as a potential cultural hero.
2. spec. A style of rock music, popular in the late 1970s, that was originally associated with punk rock (see punk rock), but later developed its own, more restrained character.
1976Listener 23 Dec. 847/2 The Pistols are..the best known of the ‘new-wave’, or ‘punk-rock’ groups. 1977[see punk rock]. 1977Time Out 17 June 9/2 If New Wave means anything at all as a description, it means, says Petty, ‘young bands playing again. For a long time the young bands were just joining the old bands.’ 1979N.Y. Times 13 Aug. c16/3 Punk soon turned to new wave, which especially in the United States meant a more deliberately clever, even arty approach to rock minimalism. 1980Washington Post Mag. 18 May 28/5 The first bands I heard referred to as New Wave were Englishmen Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson and the Police. 1984Listener 24 May 8/3 The general lack of success British companies had with punk and New Wave music in America was only in part a result of the differing musical tastes of the two countries.
Hence new waver, a performer or follower of new wave music; new wavish a.
1977Sounds 9 July 38/4 (Advt.), New wave band Penetration, the premier new wavers in the North-East. 1982Washington Post 10 June d10/6 Anderson is a borderline New Waver who looks as though she has been out in the rain upside down.
1963Punch 20 Feb. 285/1 Perhaps she's New Wavish enough to scorn love. 1974Publishers Weekly 25 Nov. 47/1 Malzberg is rather on the New Wavish side, writing ‘speculative’ rather than straight science fiction. |