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==Overview/characteristics== [[File:Glenn Branca.jpg|thumb|[[Glenn Branca]] performing in New York in the early 1980s]] No wave is not a clearly definable [[Music genre|musical genre]] with consistent features, but it generally was characterized by a rejection of the recycling of traditional [[Rock music|rock]] aesthetics, such as [[blues rock]] styles and [[Chuck Berry]] [[guitar riffs]] in [[Punk music|punk]] and [[new wave music]].<ref name="pitchfork.com"/> No wave groups drew on and explored such disparate stylistic forms as [[Minimalism (visual arts)|minimalism]], [[conceptual art]], [[funk]], [[jazz]], [[blues]], [[punk rock]], and [[avant-garde music|avant garde]] [[noise music]].<ref name=romanowski>{{cite book | editor=Romanowski, P. | others=H. George-Warren & [[Jon Pareles|J. Pareles]] | title=The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll | orig-year=1983 | edition=Revised | year=1995 | publisher=Fireside | location=New York | isbn=0-684-81044-1 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonee00patr/page/717 717] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonee00patr/page/717 }}</ref> According to ''[[Village Voice]]'' writer Steve Anderson, the scene pursued an [[abrasive]] [[Reductionism (music)|reductionism]] which "undermined the power and mystique of a rock vanguard by depriving it of a tradition to react against".<ref name="anderson">{{cite book|last1=Foege|first1=Alec|title=Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story|date=October 1994|publisher=Macmillan|pages=68–9|isbn=9780312113698|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sw6GE_5XTz4C&q=New+York's+last+stylistically+cohesive+avant-rock+movement}}</ref> Anderson claimed that the no wave scene represented "New York's last stylistically cohesive [[avant-rock]] movement".<ref name="anderson"/> There were, however, some elements common to most no-wave music, such as abrasive [[Atonality|atonal]] sounds; repetitive, driving [[rhythm]]s; and a tendency to emphasize musical texture over melody—typical of [[La Monte Young]]'s early [[downtown music]].<ref name="Masters, Marc 2007, p. 200"/> In the early [[1980s in music|1980s]], [[Downtown Manhattan]]'s no wave scene transitioned from its abrasive origins into a more [[Dance music|dance]]-oriented sound, with compilations such as [[ZE Records]]'s ''[[Mutant Disco]]'' (1981) highlighting a playful sensibility borne out of the city's clash of [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[disco]] and punk styles, as well as [[dub reggae]] and [[world music]] influences.{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|pp=269}} No wave music presented a negative and [[nihilistic]] world view that reflected the desolation of late 1970s Downtown New York and how they viewed the larger society. In a 2020 essay, [[Lydia Lunch]] stated there were many problems in the years that led into the 1970s, and that calling 1967 the [[Summer of Love]] was a bald-faced lie.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-16|title=Beth B: War Is Never Over|url=https://iffr.com/en/blog/beth-b-war-is-never-over|access-date=2020-10-02|website=IFFR|language=en}}</ref> The term "no wave" might have been inspired by the [[French New Wave]] pioneer [[Claude Chabrol]], with his remark "There are no waves, only the ocean".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=O'Brien|first1=Glenn|title=Style Makes the Band|journal=Artforum International|date=October 1999}}</ref><ref>Kalat, David. "Ch 20 The Story of Chabrol". ''The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2005. not pag. Print.</ref>
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