New Wave

There are several types of subculture considered to be New Wave, including French New Wave cinema and American New Wave. British New Wave was based upon the French New Wave, in the late fifties and early sixties, and had a similar style in cinematography, usually shot in black and white and the content usually involved showing what was considered real life – like a documentary. This was particularly effective in showing what it was like for the working class of the time.

British New Wave music was initially considered Punk Rock, however it eventually began to gain a name for itself, due to its differences in electronic elements, it was also linked to the Mod subculture of 50s and 60s London.

New Wave had quite blurred lines of what it was the actually defined it, perhaps because it took influence from so many other things, but New Wave being the commercial culture that No Wave was trying to kick back at means that it must have been fairly popular and compared to the very underground ways of No Wave. If New Wave was as commercial as No Wave suggests, this means that having more blurred lines as sub culture enable it to involve more people and in that respect produce more of what makes up New Wave – films and music. American New Wave was even more widespread and considered any band that made music largely synth and electronic based as New Wave.