vaporwaveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• vapourwave (British)

語源

From vapor(ware) +‎ -wave.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈveɪ.pə.weɪv/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈveɪ.pɚ.weɪv/

名詞

vaporwave (uncountable)

1. (music, art) A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.
   • 2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:

     Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is critical of Western culture's preoccupation with the past, but it is not the only art form to call our collective regression into question.

   • 2016 August 18, “How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet”, in Esquire‎^[1]:

     Vaporwave arose in reaction to huge economic and social forces that are still very much a part of our lives: globalization, runaway consumerism, and manufactured nostalgia chief among them.

   • 2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.

参考

• Simpsonwave

Further reading

• vaporwave on Wikipedia.