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Intro

NoWave

An avant-garde music scene that existed in the late 1970s and early 80s in New York City. Most No Wave groups prominently featured dissonance, atonality, and noise in their music, and they generally foregrounded musical texture over melody. No Wave groups, unlike other reactive scenes of the 70s, such as punk, generally rejected common rock tropes. The name 'No Wave' is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the then mainstream genre of New Wave. No Wave music varied widely in sound, and groups took influence from genres such as funk, free jazz, blues, and punk rock. No Wave represented a nihilistic philosophy inspired by the urban decay of 1970s New York. Brian Eno's compilation album No New York is a good introduction to the scene. In the 80s, the No Wave scene gravitated toward making more danceable music, and started to work in elements of hip hop, disco, dub reggae, and world music.

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Parents	Rock	Song-focused, typically electric guitar-centric and beat-driven genre that emerged in the 1940s and 50s from blues, R&B and country music. Many variants and styles exist, though most feature at least electric guitar, bass, drums, and a lead singer.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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