New music
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New music may refer to:
- Contemporary classical musicContemporary classical musicContemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
- New Music AmericaNew Music AmericaNew Music America was an American festival of experimental or Downtown new music.The festival began at The Kitchen in New York City in 1979. In this first year, the festival was actually called New Music New York....
- The NewMusic, a weekly television newsmagazine in Canada.
- New Musik, an English synthpop group
- New Music (1980s music terminology) An umbrella termUmbrella termAn umbrella term is a word that provides a superset or grouping of concepts that all fall under a single common category. Umbrella term is also called a hypernym. For example, cryptology is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis, among other fields...
used by the U.S. music industry to refer to largely British, androgynous, synthesizer based acts who came to commercial success through MTV. - New Wave musicNew Wave musicNew Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
- New music, a poetic movement of the second half of the 5th century BC: Dithyramb#History