by oldwaver2 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:27 am
Thanks for these.
I don't want to open up the age old debate,
but the sub-genre Sophisti-Pop falls under the "New Wave" genre category.
New Wave is a time period but also a musical style.
"New Wave" was the alternative to Rock, Hard-Rock and Heavy Metal of the 70s & 80s.
The term "New Wave" was coined from the phrase,
"The New Wave of Rock N' Roll"
The term "New Wave" was also a marketing ploy to rebrand the late 70's "Power-pop & Pub-Rock" bands as new music.
It covered most of the pop artists from 1976 -1989.
This included the sub-genres of Power-Pop, Euro-disco, New Romantic, Sophisti-Pop,
Synth-pop, Post-Punk, British-Pop, Ska revival, Mod revival, Rockabilly revival, Goth,
EBM, Industrial, Guitar/Jangle pop revival, Coldwave, Italo -Disco, and Minimal Synth.
In the 90s several "New Wave" artists were rebranded as "Alternative".