 ##  [Genre Drift](/genre-drift) 

  ##  [Genre Drift](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/genre-drift-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

The gradual alteration over time of a genre’s recurrent structural, stylistic, or functional features such that its previously stable boundaries erode, shift, or are redefined across a body of works and practices.