sophisti-pop en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.
Meanings
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(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: