Editing New wave music (section)

===Early 1970s===
The term "new wave" is regarded as so loose and wide-ranging as to be "virtually meaningless", according to the ''New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock''.<ref name=page11>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MVrM3zKrHQC&pg=PA11|page=11|title=Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s|author=Theo Cateforis|publisher=University of Michigan Press|date= 7 June 2011|isbn=978-0472034703}}</ref> It originated as a catch-all for the music that emerged after [[punk rock]], including punk itself,<ref name="allmusic.com"/> in Britain. Scholar Theo Cateforis said that the term was used to commercialize punk groups in the media:

{{blockquote|text=Punk rock or new wave bands overwhelmingly expressed their dissatisfaction with the prevailing rock trends of the day. They viewed bombastic progressive rock groups like [[Emerson Lake and Palmer]] and [[Pink Floyd]] with disdain, and instead channeled their energies into a more stripped back sound… The media, however, portrayed punk groups like the Sex Pistols and their fans as violent and unruly, and eventually punk acquired a stigma—especially in the United States—that made the music virtually unmarketable. At the same time, a number of bands, such as [[the Cars]], [[the Police]] and [[Elvis Costello]] and [[the Attractions]], soon emerged who combined the energy and rebellious attitude of punk with a more accessible and sophisticated radio-friendly sound. These groups were lumped together and marketed exclusively under the label of new wave.<ref name="QA Theo Cateforis">{{cite web |last1=Cateforis |first1=Theo |title=Q&A with Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave? |url=https://blog.press.umich.edu/2011/05/interview-theo-cateforis-author/ |website=University of Michigan Press Blog |date=4 May 2011 |publisher=Michigan Publishing |access-date=19 March 2022 |ref=none |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526211701/http://blog.press.umich.edu/2011/05/interview-theo-cateforis-author/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

[[File:Talking Heads band1.jpg|thumb|left|[[Talking Heads]] performing in [[Toronto]] in 1978]]

As early as 1973, critics including [[Nick Kent]] and [[Dave Marsh]] were using the term "new wave" to classify New York–based groups such as [[the Velvet Underground]] and [[New York Dolls]].{{sfn|Cateforis|2011|p=20}} In the US, many of the first new wave groups were the not-so-punk acts associated with [[CBGB]] (e.g. Talking Heads, [[Mink DeVille]] and [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]),<ref name=EncyclopediaofContemporaryBritishCulture /> as well as the [[proto-punk]] scene in Ohio, which included [[Devo]], [[Electric Eels (band)|the Electric Eels]], [[Rocket from the Tombs]], and [[Pere Ubu]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/14/clevelands-early-punk-pioneers-ohio|title=Cleveland's early punk pioneers: from cultural vacuum to creative explosion|last=Savage|first=Jon|date=14 November 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=6 October 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/ohio-78.php|title=Robert Christgau: A Real New Wave Rolls Out of Ohio|website=Robertchristgau.com|access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref> Some important bands, such as [[Suicide (band)|Suicide]] and [[the Modern Lovers]] debuted even earlier.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i76oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |title=The Ramones' Ramones|last=Rombes|first=Nicholas|date=18 February 2005|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=9781441103703|language=en}}</ref> CBGB owner [[Hilly Kristal]], referring to the first show by [[Television (band)|Television]] at his club in March 1974, said; "I think of that as the beginning of new wave".<ref>Clinton Heylin, ''Babylon's Burning'' (Conongate, 2007), p. 17.</ref> Many musicians who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A 1977 [[Phonogram Records]] compilation album of the same name (''[[New Wave (compilation album)|New Wave]]'') includes American bands [[Dead Boys]], [[Ramones]], [[Talking Heads]], and [[the Runaways]].<ref name="EncyclopediaofContemporaryBritishCulture">{{cite book |author1=Peter Childs |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco0000unse_l1e7 |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture |author2=Mike Storry |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-415-14726-2 |page=365 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name=Savage>Savage, Jon. (1991) ''England's Dreaming'', Faber & Faber</ref>