Definition of new wave in US English:
new wave
nounˌn(y)o͞o ˈwāvˌn(j)u ˈweɪv
1A new movement or trend, especially in the arts.
a new wave was coming in architecture
- 1.1 A style of rock music popular in the 1970s and 1980s, deriving from punk but generally more pop in sound and less aggressive in performance.
Example sentencesExamples
- How can these two bands think they came out of a vacuum, arguing about new wave authenticity in the 21st Century?
- They asked some young singers who had never heard the songs before to sing on each track, and in the process what we get is a unique way to hear our favourite new wave songs.
- It begins with a squall of synthesisers and segues into a terrific new wave guitar line and a terrific drumbeat.
- Imagine that Elvis had lived, and that Col Parker got the idea that new wave was what the kids are into these days.
- Their music has a little bit of many great influences, from post-punk to new wave to shoegaze.
- 1.2
another term for nouvelle vague
Example sentencesExamples
- It says something of the times that Coutard, a man who had worked with all the distinguished new wave French directors, said yes.
- It's hard to pin down Zhang Yimou, the maverick from China's Fifth Generation of new wave filmmakers.
- In fact, Hatherley has a general affinity with early 1980s new wave.
- In fact, politics is one of the areas where the Toronto new wave and the French New Wave truly diverge.
- Schrader reminds me a little of Claude Chabrol, who occupied a similar position within the French new wave of the 1960s.