New Age music

British  

noun

1. a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments

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Example Sentences

The chasm between Emmanuel’s approach and Halpern’s is in many ways the story of New Age music in America, or beyond that, any outsider art with a more sanctioned form.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019

The arrangement, influenced by New Age music, came out of early Turtle Island recordings on the independent, instrumental acoustic label Windham Hill.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2018

I had zero interest in the clinical setting, picturing a windowless room with incense and New Age music setting the “mood,” while being observed, presumably, through a two-way mirror.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2017

California helped birth New Age music, and across the decades its mindful, sparse tones and textures have scored millions of hours of yoga and meditation sessions.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2017

Caterers serve Nicoise salad with seared tuna, and visitors lounge on white leather couches as New Age music pulses through overhead speakers.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2012