No wave was a short-lived but influential avant-garde music and arts scene in New York City, which arose in the late 1970s as a reaction against punk and new wave music, considered by its members to be too commercial and conventional. Bands such as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA and the Contortions played harsh, dissonant and deliberately abrasive music, with noise, atonal guitars and unconventional rhythms. The scene was documented in the 1978 compilation album No New York, produced by Brian Eno. It also involved film, art and performance, with figures like Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay and James Chance. Its influence can be heard in later noise rock, post-punk and experimental music.
Before and after
- 1977Establishment of Khangchendzonga National Park
- 1977Creation of Berkeley Software Distribution
- 1977Founding of International Fund for Agricultural Development
- 1977Rise of Charter 77
- 1977Rise of no wave
- 1977Frederick Sanger develops rapid DNA sequencing
- 15 January 1977Birth of Giorgia Meloni
- 31 January 1977Construction of Centre Georges Pompidou
- 17 February 1977Scientists discover hydrothermal vents and deep-sea life
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