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I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.
Juan Campodonico

Meaning of "synth-pop" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SYNTH-POP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYNTH-POP

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Synth-Pop is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SYNTH-POP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Synthpop

Synthpop, a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Early synthpop pioneers included Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra and British bands Ultravox and The Human League; the latter largely used monophonic synthesizers to produce music with a simple and austere sound. After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.

Definition of synth-pop in the English dictionary

The definition of synth-pop in the dictionary is a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SYNTH-POP

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SYNTH-POP

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Synonyms and antonyms of synth-pop in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «synth-pop» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of synth-pop to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of synth-pop from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «synth-pop» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

合成器流行
1,325 millions of speakers

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synth- pop
570 millions of speakers

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synth-pop
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synth पॉप
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موالفة البوب
280 millions of speakers

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синти-поп
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synth- pop
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synth-পপ
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synth-pop
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Synth-pop
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Synth-Pop
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シンセポップ
130 millions of speakers

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신스팝
85 millions of speakers

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Synth-pop
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synth -pop
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சின்த்-பாப்
75 millions of speakers

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सिन्थ-पॉप
75 millions of speakers

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Synth-açılır
70 millions of speakers

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synth -pop
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synth - pop
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сінті -поп
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synth - pop
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synth - pop
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synth - pop
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synth - pop
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synth -pop
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about synth-pop

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Juan Campodonico
I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNTH-POP»

Discover the use of synth-pop in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to synth-pop and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Electronic Music
of female-fronted acts in the synth pop tradition, including Goldfrapp and La Roux , with greater prominence of collaborative and solo female production work for such artists as Miss Kittin, Ladytron, Little Boots (famously with the Tenori-On), ...
Nicholas Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, 2013
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La Croche Lune
... goth, industrial, synth pop – USA ¤ www.live365.com/stations/martikas INSURRECTION dark wave, ebm, industrial, noise, synth pop – UK ¤ www. live365.com/stations/doctorbutcher KOLD WAR RADIO down tempo, electro, idm, industrial, ...
David D'HALLEINE
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Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music
In hindsight, however, I can see that the Police were cleverly responding to the prevailing stylistic trends in British pop at the time. By 1980, punk was all but dead in Britain, and synth pop was surfacing as the next important style. Like punk ...
Mark Stuart Spicer, John Rudolph Covach, 2010
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SPIN
... as a trendy haven for fops, wimps, geeks, and cyborgs and beloved by fops, wimps, geeks, and cyborgs as a computer- world improvement on punk, disco, and soul, synth pop has endured and mutated for more than two decades. Though ...
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SPIN
071 THE KILLERS BRING SAME-SEXY BACK AUGUST 17, 2004: It took a little bit of Mormon swagger to help upturn the world of jock rock. After "Somebody Told Me," the Sin City boys' first flirtation with synth- pop and sexual confusion, ...
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Pop Brands: Branding, Popular Music, and Young People
Conversely, a savvy and ironic nostalgia comes in to play around bands such as the Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran who embody the excess, perceived 'bad' taste and hyperreality of 80s and 90s synth-pop. In each case nostalgia serves to  ...
Nicholas Carah, 2010
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The Music Sound:
Nicolae Sfetcu. Cabaret Voltaire Shriekback A Flock of Seagulls Europe Genres ○ New Wave ○ Synth pop ○ Industrial music ○ Goth Rock. 1990s. And. Later. 1990s synth rock drew its style from combinations of '80s New Wave, '80s/'90s ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
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Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
The sway between the two is captured in the following excerpt that delineates how synthesizer music has been accepted and legitimized after its initial explorations within progressive rock: Synth-pop went through two distinct phases. The first ...
Motti Regev, 2013
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Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American ...
But after Curtis died they renamed themselves New Order (another Nazi term), took up the electronic cudgels, and began producing a lightweight version of Kraftwerk that was quickly dubbed "synth-pop." The problem for subsequent synth-pop ...
Martha Bayles, 1994
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SPIN
... -1 CARPARK Not chi||in' but wavin', synth popper wades deeper With 2010's Causers of This, Chaz Bundick ambled to the front of the bedhead synth-pop scene—dubbed chillwave after a blogger's in-joke. The South Carolinian's second ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYNTH-POP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term synth-pop is used in the context of the following news items.
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Morrisseyoke Founder Alexis de la Rocha Goes Big With New Synth
At L.A. Pride, the band offered a 20-minute glimpse into their world, one filled with shimmering white costumes and dramatic, danceable synth-pop. On July 1 ... «LA Weekly, Jul 15»
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Passion Pit to bring dark synth-pop to Showbox
Michael Angelakos and Passion Pit, with a less revealing but more celebratory third album, “Kindred,” will perform at the Showbox on Tuesday and Wednesday, ... «The Seattle Times, May 15»
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Metric Demand Eternal Love on Glossy Synth-Pop Single 'The Shade'
Toronto mainstays Metric continue to refine their euphoric synth-pop aesthetic with new single "The Shade." The band's first new song since 2012's Synthetica ... «RollingStone.com, May 15»
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Tove Lo: Queen of the Clouds review – naughty-naughty Swedish …
Tove Lo: Queen of the Clouds review – naughty-naughty Swedish synth-pop. 4 / 5 stars. (Universal). Tove Lo. Refreshingly open … Tove Lo. Photograph: ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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On Kindred, Passion Pit tones down its hyper-colored synth-pop just …
Passion Pit main man Michael Angelakos has always been at his most efficient when heading up a one-man assembly line that cranks out tight four-minute ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Apr 15»
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Synth-pop duo Cathedrals premiere nocturnal "OOO AAA" video …
The San Franciscan synth-pop duo Cathedrals has had a good few weeks. In late February they dropped a self-titled EP, and capitalized on the hype with a ... «Entertainment Weekly, Mar 15»
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Where to start with '80s UK synth-pop
As with many strains of music, the '80s U.K. synth-pop scene can be traced back to David Bowie. In 1976, Thin White Duke-era Bowie released Station To ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Feb 15»
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See It First: Harrison Scott Offers New Synth-Pop Anthem
NYC based synth-pop artist Harrison Scott is taking 2015 by storm with his first single of the year, the moody and isolating anthem “Locked Up.” The track is ... «Yahoo Music, Feb 15»
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How Robert Ehlinger Became Houston's Prince of Synth-Pop
"If that were the case, why wasn't there any sort of synth-pop DJ night anywhere in Houston?", Ehlinger continues. "I mean, synth-pop concerts I have gone to in ... «Houston Press, Feb 15»
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Scandi Synth-pop Singer Raindear Talks Extremism, Love, and …
Another day, another obsession-worthy, Swedish indie-electro-synth-pop artist. Twenty-five-year-old Rebecca Bergcrantz, better known as Raindear, has quite a ... «Noisey, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Synth-Pop [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/synth-pop>. Apr 2024 ».
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