noun
new music
Refers to a Japanese music genre that emerged in the 1970s, blending Western pop, rock, and folk influences with Japanese lyrics. Often contrasted with kayōkyoku and enka.
1970年代にニューミュージックが流行した。
New music became popular in the 1970s.
彼はニューミュージックのアーティストとしてデビューした。
He debuted as a new music artist.
Variant with interpunct; less common but seen in some contexts.
J-POP is a broader term for Japanese popular music from the 1990s onward, while ニューミュージック specifically refers to the singer-songwriter-driven genre of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Kayōkyoku is a more traditional Japanese popular music style that preceded and coexisted with ニューミュージック; ニューミュージック was seen as more Western-influenced and lyrically introspective.
Loanword from English 'new music', adopted in Japan to label a distinct music movement of the 1970s.