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''Brave New Waves'' was a Canadian radio program which aired on CBC Stereo, later known as CBC Radio 2, from 1984 to 2007. Airing overnight five nights a week, the show profiled alternative and indie music and culture, including film, comics, literature and art.〔Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, ''Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9.〕 The show was once described by longtime host Brent Bambury as "explaining fringe culture to a comfortable mainstream audience,"〔 and by his successor Patti Schmidt as "invented with an idea of what John Peel's show was, but without ever having heard it."〔 ==History== The show was created after Augusta La Paix submitted a demo tape for a show on avant garde culture, featuring music by Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Klaus Nomi and Nina Hagen.〔"Navigating the rocky Brave New Waves". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 26, 1984.〕 In an early interview with ''The Globe and Mail'', La Paix told the newspaper that she was only a recent convert to underground music, having previously been primarily a fan of country music.〔 Produced throughout its run at the CBC's studios in Montreal and originally hosted by La Paix, the show aired for the first time on February 6, 1984.〔 The first song it ever played was Simple Minds' "Promised You a Miracle".〔 In its first year, the show was briefly the subject of a police investigation into obscenity charges, when a CBC employee who disliked the show filed an anonymous complaint about an interview with underground performance artist Karen Finley, although the investigation was dropped by the police without charges.〔 The show's initial audience figures could not be directly measured, as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement did not track radio ratings for the show's overnight timeslot; however, indirect indications of success were available as both its lead-in and lead-out programs, ''A Little Night Music'' and ''Stereo Morning'', posted significant and sustained audience gains after ''Brave New Waves'' debuted.〔 In 1985, La Paix left the show to become host of CBC Stereo's ''Two New Hours'',〔 and was replaced by Bambury,〔 previously a researcher for and occasional substitute host of the show. Music programming in these days, was the work of Kevin Komoda, who later went on to produce the first in studio sessions. Throughout the 1980s, ''Brave New Waves'' was an influential show, providing many Canadians without access to campus radio with their main exposure to alternative music,〔 and was widely credited for significant increases in both record sales and concert attendance for both Canadian and international bands who were playlisted on the show.〔 In addition, the show also increased the profile of underground and experimental writers and artists and filmmakers, including Laurie Anderson, Kathy Acker, bill bissett and Todd Solondz.〔Carl Wilson, "CBC to Indie Culture Fans: Chill Out & Love Up Big Brother". zoilus.com, March 8, 2005.〕 In the 1990s, when alternative rock became the decade's dominant commercial genre, the show kept its focus on the underground.〔 In 1995, Bambury left the program to become cohost of CBC Television's ''Midday'', and was replaced by Patti Schmidt, who also became the executive producer of the program.〔 Since 1991, she had been writing and programming music for the show. Schmidt remained the program's main host for the remainder of its run; however, due to budgetary pressures at the CBC, Schmidt was forced to work with a smaller staff and budget than Bambury had enjoyed, with the result that the program became more squarely focused on playing music, with interviews reduced to one per week.〔 The program became a reference and filter for all manner of new and contemporary music from indie rock, pop, metal and weird folk, to IDM, electronic dance music, edgy hip hop, avant garde jazz, noise, sound art, modern classical and all things uncategorizable. On May 27, 2006, the program aired an episode which was structured as a finale, with Schmidt conducting the show as a wrap party and then ending it by naming and thanking everybody who had ever worked on the show from its premiere in 1984.〔 The final piece of music played was William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops". Although the show continued to air after that date, for the remainder of its run it was reduced to just one hour per night of new programming hosted by a rotating stable of guest hosts, with the remaining three hours filled by repeats of past ''BNW'' programs.〔 On January 17, 2007, it was announced that ''Brave New Waves'' would be removed from the CBC Radio 2 line-up as part of a rebranding of the network.〔("CBC Radio to broaden Radio Two, add arts magazine" ). CBC News, January 17, 2007.〕 The program aired for the last time on March 16, 2007. The show was inducted into ''Hour'' magazine's Montreal Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.〔("Inductee, Trailblazer Award: Brave New Waves" ). ''Hour Community'', December 9, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brave New Waves」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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