Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genre of popular music characterized by droning, electronically modified sounds, typically performed and listened to motionlessly with the eyes cast downward in introspection and often under the influence of psychoactive substances.
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- noun UK A type of
Britpop or otherindie music of the 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and by a detached or introverted performance style. - verb Present participle of
shoegaze .
Etymologies
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Examples
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During Blur's heyday, you would have been hard pressed to have guessed that the frontman of a band that was often thrown in with the UK's "shoegazing" Britpop trend would turn out to be such a sonic adventurer.
Expecting Rain Times Live 2010
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Further, The Junkies has influenced countless musicians: from Gillian Welch and a generation of "alt-country" bands to most of the "shoegazing" music of the '90s, to countless singers and songwriters here in North America and abroad.
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I will freely admit to stealing the "shoegazing" moniker from other webcomics.
Theater Hopper 2009
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Next, the beautifully bright Radio Dept, another one of the great Swedish bands to bless the polo grounds in 2011, played a blissful set of shoegazing modernism.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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Anthony Gonzalez of M83 Shoegazing World-Wide It took over 10 years for French musician Anthony Gonzalez's electro-pop band M83 to receive international recognition for their style of "shoegazing" music.
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He was in the Test team the next summer and for four years interspersed cavalier bursts with long periods of inactivity, carrying the drinks, being usurped by Liam Plunkett and Sajid Mahmood and enduring long dogged net sessions of well-meaning tinkering with his action to eradicate the famous shoegazing lurch of the neck during his follow-through.
How Jimmy Anderson went from water carrier to leader of the pack | Rob Bagchi 2011
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The shoegazing tag doesn't really do their exciting, hooky, melodic songs any favours; their gutsy, heavier moments are more suited to thrashing around than admiring your new trainers.
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Next, the beautifully bright Radio Dept, another one of the great Swedish bands to bless the polo grounds in 2011, played a blissful set of shoegazing modernism.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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Undoubtedly the effect is intended to be spooky and moving, and at times their vaguely countrified songs recall that early-90s period in which the more resourceful shoegazing bands such as Moose and Slowdive set aside their effects pedals and embraced traditional songforms.
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It took over 10 years for French musician Anthony Gonzalez's electro-pop band M83 to receive international recognition for their style of "shoegazing" music.
What's On Around Europe Thorsten Gritschke 2012
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