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New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture". It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Many British acts from the 1980s - and particularly those that employed synthesisers - have at some point been inaccurately labeled as New Wave, especially in the USA, despite having no connection with the New Wave movement as it existed in the UK and Europe. Attempts to extend the New Wave period to include such later artists as Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Thompson Twins are merely journalistic, and never encountered in academic musicology. The main New Wave movement coincided with late 1970s punk, and continued into the early 1980s post-punk years, latterly competing with New Romanticism.