[Ads-l] Antedating of "New Age Music"

[Shapiro, Fred]

New Age music (OED 1985)

1981 _Rolling Stone_  11 June 47  Pat Travers Band ... Get wired with ... "New Age Music."

NOTE: This usage, apparently the name of a song of the Pat Travers Band, undoubtedly did not denote the same style of music as the later referent of the term.

Fred Shapiro

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