Radical styles are stripped of transgression before mainstream diffusion

Evidence

Before radical styles can diffuse as products, they are defused—i.e., the most transgressive qualities are surgically removed. Experimental and rebellious genres come to national attention by means of softer second-wave compromises. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 441

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Shrinking subcultures grow more extreme as core members chase escalating status — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 426; Subcultures reversed cultural flows by reversing the trickle-down of style — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 455; Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 265 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Public art absorbed taboo content in a successive widening of transgressions through the sixties #contradicts (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 642
• Fashion diffusion works through upper-class innovation followed by lower-class imitation and upper-class retreat #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 717
• Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 265