Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.
Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop

New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League leapt into the Top 40 with a novel sound that broke with the staid rock cliches of the 1970s and pointed the way to a more modern pop style.

In Are We Not New Wave? Theo Cateforis provides the...