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sophisti-pop en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. 2012, Iain Ellis, Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 102:

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