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New Age music

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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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Marin gave us New Age music and Pablo Cruise; it also gave us Jim Carroll’s indelible punk classic, “People Who Died.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

At the time of Emmanuel’s discovery, New Age music wasn’t considered to be any kind of serious musical genre—not by record collectors, at least.

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

She is going for the firefighter from Long Island who feels intimidated by “oms” and New Age music.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2011

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