Alison wrote:

For example the 'frame' in rock music in 1976 may have included such axioms as - artistic virtuosity is a good in itself, production values enhance the emotional impact of music, there is a big gap between the role of fan and the role of musician, etc. and then a very simple song like (say) 'white riot' can challenge those axioms.

Thanks for the very clear explanation, Alison. (Recalling several years of being involved with an amateur band that produced cover versions of various early Dire Straits songs which, to my mind, were better than the originals, perhaps that's not the only way of challenging the gap between fan and musician...)

Similarly a quite simple piece of B7 fanfic can challenge (could challenge) axioms to do with the separation of producer and consumer, or the location of the 'frame' that separates reading a text from responding to it, and soon.

While all this is true, indeed self-evident, surely it applies to *all* fanfic, independent of any other criteria.

Tavia