cyberpop

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noun

Pop music evoking cyber themes.

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Meanings

nouncyberpop (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountablePop music evoking cyber themes.

    […] cyberpop duo the Shamen fashion an archaic futurism from rapped vocals, fizzing synthesizers, hyperactive drum machine...

    1997, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity
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    In his carefully orchestrated fusion of innocence and menace, Michael Jackson has become a kind of cultural icon of techno-totemism, a true cyberpop villain/hero.

    1998, Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning

    More than ever they are seen as the originators of modern electronic pop music — somehow the bridge between Stockhausen and cyberpop.

    2004, Pascal Bussy, Mick Fish, Kraftwerk: man, machine and music
  2. uncountableElements of cyberpunk fiction and cyberculture brought into the mainstream as pop culture.

Origin

From cyber- + pop.

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APA

cyberpop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberpop

MLA

“cyberpop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberpop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberpop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberpop.

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