The cultural canon now expands cumulatively instead of displacing old styles

Evidence

In perhaps the primary example of the stagnancy, the Beatles never faded at all: Their 2000 greatest hits album 1 sold over eleven million copies, making it the bestselling album of the decade. In 2006, Cirque du Soleil launched Love, a mash-up extravaganza of Beatles songs that ran for eighteen years. This endurance suggested a winning formula in the 1960s cultural paradigm—transgression, hedonism, and light experimentation—that could be endlessly adapted. Only the drugs and beats changed. But the new part was that, over time, the canon simply expanded, with very little falling out of favor. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 384

Categorization

• XREF: The image of a canon that expands without displacement is the musical dimension of the omnivore monoculture where nothing signals anything because nothing goes out of fashion.