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ニューミュージック (nyuumyuujikku) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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New music became popular in the 1970s.
He debuted as a new music artist.
Related words J - POP 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.
歌か 謡よう 曲きょく 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.
Etymology Loanword from English 'new music', adopted in Japan to label a distinct music movement of the 1970s.