Editing New wave music (section)

===Mid- to late 1970s===
Between 1976 and 1977, the terms "new wave" and "punk" were used somewhat interchangeably.<ref name="dissertation" /><ref>{{Cite book|title= Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk |last= Joynson|first= Vernon|year= 2001|publisher=Borderline Publications|location= Wolverhampton|isbn= 1-899855-13-0|page= 12|quote= <!--For a while in 1976 and 1977 the terms punk and new wave were largely interchangeable. By 1978, things were beginning to change, although the dividing line between punk and new wave was never very clear.-->}}</ref> 
Music historian Vernon Joynson said new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, when many bands began disassociating themselves from punk.<ref name="Joynson 2001 11" /> That year, the term gained currency when it appeared in UK punk [[fanzine]]s such as ''[[Sniffin' Glue]]'', and music weeklies such as ''[[Melody Maker]]'' and ''[[New Musical Express]]''.<ref name=Gendron>Gendron, Bernard (2002). ''Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde'' (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press), pp. 269–270.</ref> In November 1976, [[Caroline Coon]] used Malcolm McLaren's term "new wave" to designate music by bands that were not exactly [[punk rock|punk]] but were related to the punk-music scene.<ref>Clinton Heylin, ''Babylon's Burning'' (Conongate, 2007), pp. 140, 172.</ref> The mid-1970s British [[Pub rock (United Kingdom)|pub rock]] scene was the source of many of the most-commercially-successful new wave acts, such as [[Ian Dury]], [[Nick Lowe]], [[Eddie and the Hot Rods]], and [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]].<ref name="Bomp">Adams, Bobby. "Nick Lowe: A Candid Interview", ''Bomp'' magazine, January 1979, reproduced at [http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2005/12/pppda-nick-lowe-interview-from-1979.html]. Retrieved 21 January 2007.</ref>

In the US, [[Sire Records]] chairman [[Seymour Stein]], believing the term "punk" would mean poor sales for Sire's acts who had frequently played the New York club [[CBGB]], launched a "Don't Call It Punk" campaign designed to replace the term with "new wave".{{sfn|Cateforis|2011|p=25}} Because radio consultants in the US had advised their clients punk rock was a fad, they settled on the new term. Like the filmmakers of the [[French New Wave|French New Wave movement]], after whom the genre was named, new wave bands such as [[Ramones]] and Talking Heads were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most American writers used the term "new wave" exclusively in reference to British punk acts.<ref>''The Grove Dictionary of American Music'', 2nd edition New 3 September 2014</ref> Starting in December 1976, ''[[The New York Rocker]]'', which was suspicious of the term "punk", became the first American journal to enthusiastically use the term, at first for British acts and later for acts associated with the CBGB scene.<ref name=Gendron /> The music's stripped-back style and upbeat tempos, which Stein and others viewed as a much-needed return to the energetic rush of rock and roll and 1960s rock that had dwindled in the 1970s with [[progressive rock]] and stadium spectacles, attracted them to new wave.<ref name="Cateforis, Theo 2014">Cateforis, Theo. "New Wave." ''The Grove Dictionary of American Music'', 2nd ed., Oxford University Press. 2014.</ref>{{page needed|date=May 2022}}

The term "post-punk" was coined to describe groups who were initially considered part of new wave but were more ambitious, serious, challenging, darker, and less pop-oriented.{{according to whom|date=January 2021}} Some of these groups later adopted synthesizers.<ref>{{cite book|author=Greil Marcus|title=Ranters and Crowd Pleasers|page=109|publisher=Anchor Books|year= 1994}}</ref> While punk rock wielded a major influence on the popular music scene in the UK, in the US it remained a fixture of the underground.<ref name="Cateforis, Theo 2014" />

By the end of 1977, "new wave" had replaced "punk" as the term for new [[underground music]] in the UK.<ref name="Gendron" /> In early 1978, [[XTC]] released the single "[[This Is Pop]]" as a direct response to tags such as "new wave". Songwriter [[Andy Partridge]] later stated of bands such as themselves who were given those labels; "Let's be honest about this. This is pop, what we're playing&nbsp;... don't try to give it any fancy new names, or any words that you've made up, because it's blatantly just pop music. We were a new pop group. That's all."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bernhardt|first1=Todd|last2=Partridge|first2=Andy|author-link2=Andy Partridge|title=Andy discusses "This Is Pop"|url=http://chalkhills.org/articles/XTCFans20071111.html|website=Chalkhills|date=11 November 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/>