No Wave

The first thing I noticed was that not only was No Wave a short-lived thing, it came as a reaction to what was seen as the commercial New Wave, which was running alongside Post-Punk, which obviously came after Punk, which, on the whole, was a reaction to the hippies. This suggests that perhaps there is an on-going link between subcultures, either as an offshoot of something that already existed, or as an opposing reaction to a pre-existing subculture, and with this in mind, really, subcultures aren't all that unique at all. Just like the idea that in current modern society of post-modernism, nothing can be original any more, perhaps this was always happening and no one noticed.

No Wave began in New York City in the seventies, and he fact that No Wave was short-lived indicates the idea that currently there won't be a large youth group who consider themselves a part of the No Wave movement, or at least not in London, as the movement began in America there could still be a fair amount of people influenced in America. However, as the scene was heavily shown through art, music and film, there will be people out there who either lived through the No Wave era in London and other parts of England, or have found the culture afterwards, who consume the culture of No Wave even now. No Wave artists were essentially nihilists, especially in the bands lyrics. The dictionary definite of nihilism is: “ and the idea of nihilism is definitely something which hasn't just disappeared, with current authors like Chuck Palahniuk using nihilism as a recurring theme in his books.