Editing Punk rock (section)

===New wave===
{{Main|New wave music}}
[[File:Blondie (Debbie Harry) One.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Singer Debbie Harry is shown onstage at a concert. She is wearing jeans and a T-shirt.|[[Debbie Harry]] performing in Toronto in 1977]]
In 1976—first in London, then in the United States—"New Wave" was introduced as a complementary label for the formative scenes and groups also known as "punk"; the two terms were essentially interchangeable.<ref>Gendron (2002), pp. 269–74.</ref> ''[[NME]]'' journalist [[Roy Carr]] is credited with proposing the term's use (adopted from the cinematic [[French New Wave]] of the 1960s) in this context.<ref>Strongman (2008), p. 134.</ref> Over time, "new wave" acquired a distinct meaning: bands such as [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] and [[Talking Heads]] from the CBGB scene; [[the Cars]], who emerged from the Rat in Boston; [[the Go-Go's]] in Los Angeles; and [[the Police]] in London that were broadening their instrumental palette, incorporating dance-oriented rhythms, and working with more polished production were specifically designated "new wave" and no longer called "punk". Dave Laing suggests that some punk-identified British acts pursued the new wave label to avoid radio censorship and make themselves more palatable to concert bookers.<ref>Laing (1985), pp. 37.</ref>

Bringing elements of punk rock music and fashion into more pop-oriented, less "dangerous" styles, new wave artists became very popular on both sides of the Atlantic.<ref>Wojcik (1995), p. 22.</ref> New wave became a catch-all term,<ref>Schild, Matt, [http://www.aversion.com/bands/interviews.cfm?f_id=292 "Stuck in the Future"], Aversion.com, July 11, 2005. Retrieved on January 21, 2007.</ref> encompassing disparate styles such as [[2 Tone (music genre)|2 Tone]] ska, the [[mod revival]] inspired by [[the Jam]], the sophisticated pop-rock of [[Elvis Costello]] and [[XTC]], the [[New Romantic]] phenomenon typified by [[Ultravox]], [[synthpop]] groups like [[Tubeway Army]] (which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band) and [[Human League]], and the sui generis subversions of [[Devo]], who had gone "beyond punk before punk even properly existed".<ref>Reynolds (2005), p. 79.</ref> New wave crossed into the mainstream with the debut of the cable television network [[MTV]] in 1981, which put many new wave videos into regular rotation.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=explore|id=essay/|pure_url=yes}} "New Wave"], AllMusic. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.</ref> According to Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy, authors of ''Popular Music Genres: an Introduction'', the "height of popularity for new wave" coincided with the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|election of Margaret Thatcher]] in spring 1979.<ref name=Borthwick>{{citation|title=Popular Music Genres: an Introduction|author1=S. Borthwick  |author2=R. Moy  |name-list-style=amp |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7486-1745-6 |chapter=Synthpop: into the digital age |publisher=Routledge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGPdDwAAQBAJ}}</ref>