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sophisti-pop

noun

Etymology

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

  1. derived from πάπας
  2. derived from попъ
  3. derived from поп
  4. compounded as sophisti-pop — “sophisticated + pop”

Definitions

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

    • 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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