1.1mass nounA style of rock music popular in the late 1970s, deriving from punk but generally more poppy in sound and less aggressive in performance.
新浪潮运动（指20世纪70年代流行的一种摇滚乐风格）
as modifiernew wave bands
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Imagine that Elvis had lived, and that Col Parker got the idea that new wave was what the kids are into these days.
It begins with a squall of synthesisers and segues into a terrific new wave guitar line and a terrific drumbeat.
Their music has a little bit of many great influences, from post-punk to new wave to shoegaze.
How can these two bands think they came out of a vacuum, arguing about new wave authenticity in the 21st Century?
They asked some young singers who had never heard the songs before to sing on each track, and in the process what we get is a unique way to hear our favourite new wave songs.
1.2
another term for nouvelle vague
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It's hard to pin down Zhang Yimou, the maverick from China's Fifth Generation of new wave filmmakers.
It says something of the times that Coutard, a man who had worked with all the distinguished new wave French directors, said yes.
Schrader reminds me a little of Claude Chabrol, who occupied a similar position within the French new wave of the 1960s.
In fact, politics is one of the areas where the Toronto new wave and the French New Wave truly diverge.
In fact, Hatherley has a general affinity with early 1980s new wave.
Definition of new wave in US English:
new wave
nounˌn(y)o͞o ˈwāvˌn(j)u ˈweɪv
1A new movement or trend, especially in the arts.
a new wave was coming in architecture
1.1A style of rock music popular in the 1970s and 1980s, deriving from punk but generally more pop in sound and less aggressive in performance.
新浪潮运动（指20世纪70年代流行的一种摇滚乐风格）
Example sentencesExamples
How can these two bands think they came out of a vacuum, arguing about new wave authenticity in the 21st Century?
They asked some young singers who had never heard the songs before to sing on each track, and in the process what we get is a unique way to hear our favourite new wave songs.
It begins with a squall of synthesisers and segues into a terrific new wave guitar line and a terrific drumbeat.
Imagine that Elvis had lived, and that Col Parker got the idea that new wave was what the kids are into these days.
Their music has a little bit of many great influences, from post-punk to new wave to shoegaze.
1.2
another term for nouvelle vague
Example sentencesExamples
It says something of the times that Coutard, a man who had worked with all the distinguished new wave French directors, said yes.
It's hard to pin down Zhang Yimou, the maverick from China's Fifth Generation of new wave filmmakers.
In fact, Hatherley has a general affinity with early 1980s new wave.
In fact, politics is one of the areas where the Toronto new wave and the French New Wave truly diverge.
Schrader reminds me a little of Claude Chabrol, who occupied a similar position within the French new wave of the 1960s.