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no wave: a collection of content relating to no wave

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Share content relating to the no wave "movement." - Music - Discussion - Art - Photos - Interviews

Created Jan 12, 2013 · restricted

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No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre. The term originates from a 1981 show, "New York/New Wave", curated by artist Diego Cortez.

Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave

And here: http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/nycnowave_index.html

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