""Are We Not New Wave?" is destined to become the definitive
study of new wave music."
--Mark Spicer, coeditor of "Sounding Out Pop"
New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music
movement cast in the image of punk rock's sneering demeanor, yet
rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the
Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League leapt into the
Top 40 with a novel sound that broke with the staid rock cliches of
the 1970s and pointed the way to a more modern pop style.
In "Are We Not New Wave?" Theo Cateforis provides the first
musical and cultural history of the new wave movement, charting its
rise out of mid-1970s punk to its ubiquitous early 1980s MTV
presence and downfall in the mid-1980s. The book also explores the
meanings behind the music's distinctive traits--its characteristic
whiteness and nervousness; its playful irony, electronic melodies,
and crossover experimentations. Cateforis traces new wave's modern
sensibilities back to the space-age consumer culture of the late
1950s/early 1960s.
Three decades after its rise and fall, new wave's influence
looms large over the contemporary pop scene, recycled and
celebrated not only in reunion tours, VH1 nostalgia specials, and
"80s night" dance clubs but in the music of artists as diverse as
Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and the Killers.
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