rock music of the late 1970s, related to punk but more complex: sometimes used to include punk
nouvelle vague in American English
(nuːvel ˈvaɡ)
nounWord forms: pluralnouvelles vagues (nuːvel ˈvaɡ) French
1.
a new wave, trend, movement, phase, etc., esp. in an art form
2.
the films of a group of young French and Italian filmmakers, beginning in the late 1950s, who emphasized conscious manipulation of film techniques and psychological probing instead of plot