Sophisti-pop

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK. uncountable

    "The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop."

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"The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop."

Etymology

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

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