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Jazz Wave Ltd.No wave No wave Music scene This article is about the music genre. For the album by Music Revelation Ensemble, see No Wave (album). No wave was an avant-garde music and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City.[4][5] The term was coined as a rejection of commercial new wave music.[6] No wave musicians took rock instrumentation and experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality, as well as non-rock genres like free jazz, funk, and disco.[7][8][9] The scene often reflected an abrasive, confrontational, and nihilistic worldview, originally pioneered by New York artists Suicide and Jack Ruby.[10][11][12] Quick facts Stylistic origins, Cultural origins ... No wave Stylistic origins Punk rock avant-garde noise funk disco jazz free… (Source: Wikipedia)
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