Push My Envelope Dept.

Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember? - The New York Times

... the definition of transgressive is shifting. Its no longer appropriate to dismiss disco as superficial. More and more, we recognize how disco latently pushed gay, urban culture into white suburbia, which is a more meaningful transgression than going on a British TV talk show and swearing at the host.

My take is that "transgressive" is always relative to what you're pushing against, and even then it's a moving t...