Memphisn.
/ˈmɛmfɪs/, U.S. /ˈmɛm(p)fəs/ 1. attributive. Music. Designating any of several styles of popular music associated with Memphis, Tennessee; (in later use) spec. designating the soul sound, influenced by rhythm and blues and possessing elements of funk, associated with the Stax record label.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop
metal?1518
anthemic1890
Afro-Latin-American1900
sun-kissed1907
heavy1937
Latin American1937
Memphis1938
sun-drenched1943
indie1945
rockish1955
hardcore1957
doo-wop1958
middle of the road1959
Latin1962
straight-ahead1964
easy listening1965
Motown1965
funky1967
post-rock1967
rocky1967
rock-out1968
funkadelic1969
funked out1970
grungy1971
punk1971
grunge1972
Philly1972
dub1973
drum and bass1975
disco funky1976
punkish1976
reggaefied1976
Britpop1977
post-punk1977
anarcho-punk1979
rap1980
trash rock1980
crunchy1981
industrial1981
New Romantic1981
rockist1981
garage1982
hip-hop1982
thrashy1982
urban1982
Gothic1983
hip-hopping1983
beat-box1984
lo-fi1986
technoid1986
hip-house1987
acid house1988
new jack1988
old school1988
techno1988
baggy1990
banging1990
gangsta1990
filthy1991
handbaggy1991
nu skool1991
sampladelic1991
junglist1993
1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn i. v. 43 Memphis style is sometimes called ‘take your turn’, and New Orleans has everybody in at the same time.
1970 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 36 133 One learns the difference between the Nashville sound and the Memphis sound.
1991 A. Goldman in B. Morrow Conjunctions 28 It wasn't until the mid-sixties that Memphis finally put its name on a nationally popular style of music, the Memphis Soul Sound.
1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Independent 23 Dec. 15/2 Drawing on Memphis soul grooves rubbed raw, the sonic mash of psychedelic power trios, the twisted harmonics of jukejoint blues, and a dash of funky hip-hop flavor.
2. Decorative Arts. [ < the title of the song Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (1966) by Bob Dylan.] attributive. Designating an Italian interior design group which first exhibited in 1981, whose work is characterized by a garish, geometric style and a disregard for conventional harmony; of, relating to, or characteristic of this group or its style. Also absol.: the group itself, or the design movement associated with it.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements
chinoiserie1846
fantasticism1846
materialism1850
attitudinarianism1853
Vienna Secession1900
luminarism1903
Viennese Secession1903
luminism1905
Whistlerism1912
Omega Workshop1917
Suprematism1921
neoprimitivism1922
Rayonism1922
Bauhaus1923
linearism1935
precisionism1939
actionism1953
neo-expressionism1957
neo-Dadaism1960
neo-Dada1961
structurism1963
arte povera1969
process art1969
eco-art1970
body art1971
post-minimalism1971
Memphis1981
neo-conceptualism1986
Neo-Geo1986
Norman Rockwellism1988
Stuckism1999
1981 Mobilia (Snekkersten, Denmark) No. 303. 22/1 Ettore Sottsass..has..brought together a number of like-minded designers from several parts of the globe and supervised, in only about six months, the creation of a set of furniture to sell through the company he has set up and named..‘Memphis’.
1987 Weekend Austral. 7 June (Weekend Mag.) 12/4 The wife is housed in a real Bel Air mansion which was gutted and redecorated for the film..in the trendy ‘Memphis’ style—all mismatched colour and crazy angles.
1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) vii. 171 The design movement called Memphis, from its beginning in 1981, was intended as a disruption of design rules.
2001 Independent 8 Sept. (Weekend Review section) 18/2 Soon there were zingy high-voltage Memphis fabrics, and hotchpotch rainbow-coloured Memphis glass.
2001 Independent 8 Sept. (Weekend Review section) 18/3 The knock-on, trickle-down effect of Memphis as a style was significant and widespread.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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