New pop

For other uses, see New music (disambiguation).
New pop
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsEarly 1980s, United Kingdom
Other topics

New pop is a loosely defined British-centric pop music movement consisting of ambitious, DIY-minded artists who achieved commercial success in the early 1980s through sources such as MTV. Rooted in the post-punk movement of the late 1970s, the movement spanned a wide variety of styles and artists, including acts such as Orange Juice, the Human League, and ABC. The term "rockist", a pejorative against people who shunned this type of music,[4][5] coincided with and was associated with new pop.[2]

"New music" is a roughly equivalent but slightly more expansive umbrella term[6] for a pop music and cultural phenomenon in the US associated with the Second British Invasion.[7][8] The term was used by the music industry and by American music journalists during the 1980s to characterize then-new movements like new pop and New Romanticism.[9]

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  2. ^ a b c d Harvel, Jess. "Now That's What I Call New Pop!". Pitchfork Media. 12 September 2005.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Postpunk-Postdisco Fusion". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X.
  4. ^ "Embarrassment Rock". Pitchfork.com. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Rockism - it's the new rockism". The Guardian. 25 May 2006. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  6. ^ Reynolds 2005, p. 338.
  7. ^ "The Michigan Daily - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  8. ^ Denisoff, R. Serge (1 January 1986). Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisted [i.e. Revisited]. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412835565. Retrieved 3 September 2020 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Cateforis 2011, pp. 12, 56.