Editing No wave (section)

{{short description|Music genre}}
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{{Infobox music genre
| name              = No wave
| stylistic_origins = {{flatlist|
*[[Punk rock]]
*[[post-punk]]
*[[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]]
*[[noise music|noise]]
*[[funk]]
*[[disco]]
*[[jazz]]
*[[free jazz]]
*[[experimental rock]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Lawrence|first=Tim|title=Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992|url=https://archive.org/details/holdontoyourdrea00lawr|url-access=registration|year=2009|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9085-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/holdontoyourdrea00lawr/page/344 344]}}</ref>
*[[art rock]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leone |first1=Dominique |title=Black Dice: Creature Comforts Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/751-creature-comforts/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=October 6, 2022 |date=June 20, 2004}}</ref>
}}
| cultural_origins  = Late 1970s, [[New York City]]
| derivatives       = {{flatlist|
* [[Avant-funk]]<ref name="murray">{{cite book|last1=Murray|first1=Charles Shaar|title=Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock 'N' Roll Revolution|date=October 1991|publisher=Macmillan|page=205|isbn=9780312063245|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiWtlIxnQ6gC&q=avant-funk+no+wave&pg=PA205|access-date=6 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[punk jazz]]
}}
| subgenres         =
| other_topics      = {{flatlist|
* [[Art punk]]
* [[avant-punk]]
* [[industrial music|industrial]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
* [[noise pop]]
* [[noise rock]]
* [[post-punk]]
* [[timeline of punk rock]]
}}
}}

'''No wave''' was an [[avant-garde music]] [[Music genre|genre]] and [[visual art]] scene that emerged in the late [[1970s in music|1970s]] in [[Downtown New York City]].<ref name=romanowski />{{sfn|Masters|2007|p=5}} The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial [[new wave music]].{{sfn|Pearlman|2003|p=188}} Reacting against [[punk rock]]'s recycling of [[rock and roll]] [[clichés]], no wave musicians instead experimented with [[noise music|noise]], [[dissonance (music)|dissonance]], and [[atonality]], as well as non-[[Rock music|rock]] genres like [[free jazz]], [[funk]], and [[disco]].<ref name="caz">{{cite web |first=Trevor |last=McLaren |date=17 February 2005 |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16407 |title=James Chance and the Contortions: Buy |access-date=17 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="pitchfork.com">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6764-no-the-origins-of-no-wave/|title=NO!: The Origins of No Wave|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=23 July 2013|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074133/http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6764-no-the-origins-of-no-wave/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{AllMusic|class=style|id=ma0000005018|title=No Wave}}</ref> The scene often reflected an [[abrasive]], confrontational, and [[nihilism|nihilistic]] world view.<ref>[https://www.factmag.com/2014/03/10/a-beginners-guide-to-no-wave/] John Calvert, [[Fact (UK magazine)]], 2014, A Beginner’s Guide to no wave</ref>

The movement was short-lived but highly influential in the music world. The 1978 compilation ''[[No New York]]'' is often considered the quintessential testament to the scene's musical aesthetic.<ref>{{cite book |last=Masters |first=Marc |title=No Wave |publisher=Black Dog Publishing |location=New York City |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-906155-02-5 |page=9}}</ref> Aside from the music genre, the no wave movement also had a significant influence in independent film ([[no wave cinema]]), fashion, and visual art.<ref name="Masters, Marc 2007, p. 200">{{harvnb|Masters|2007|p=200}}</ref>