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New Wave is a subgenre of Punk that originated in the late 1970s and continued in the 1980s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s. New Wave was essentially a blending of Punk and Pop with heavy use of the synthesizer (though, not always the case), but it also incorporated various influences as well as aspects of mod subculture, electronic music, disco, and funk.
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