Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
Her worries about her job have faded into the background since she learned about her father's illness.
As she drifted into sleep, the doctor's face began to blur and fade.
And exits took on the qualities of a final musical chord fading off into inaudibility.
Even while one is enthralled with the grand passions presented on stage, one recognises that 'what one heard was simultaneously invented and fading away' (xvi).
With the fading of the political role it held in the late 1980s, rock's power as signifier has been compromised.