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C.36:4.1 - Style And Tradition Term Bridge

Use a term bridge when a source or project label must remain usable across contexts.

StyleTraditionTermBridgeTable@Context:
  SourceLabel:
  SourceContext:
  RecoveredFPFValueOrRelation:
  ApplicablePatternRef:
  SenseCellRefs:
  BridgeRefs:
  AdmissibleUse:
  BlockedUse:
  CurrentnessCondition:

The table records term use and any actual bridge. F.17 supplies durable term rows, F.18 supplies naming restoration, and F.9 defines bridge relations. C.36 uses the result only to keep the cultural-evolution case connected to those exact contributions.

For music and dance, a label such as prog, post-prog, contemporary, hip-hop, battle, TikTok dance, canon, school, or technique may point to different FPF values in different contexts. The bridge row says which one is current before the project relies on the label.

When the claim concerns a retained style, name what varies and what the comparison retains. Depicting a new scene in a retained visual style changes the represented content; depicting the same scene in different styles changes the style. These are different preservation relations. Say which works or variants are compared, by what relevant features, and for which use. A stylistic similarity alone does not establish that an audience recognizes or likes the work, that a performer can reproduce it, or that its method has been transmitted; those conclusions need the corresponding recognition, response, performance or transmission relation.