History & The Arts
Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
...centre of events and, understandably, swamped by their magnitude. It’s apposite that one focus of the attacks was a rock concert. Given that rock and pop are commercialised and transnational cultural forms, we tend not to regard them as particularly fragile. But economic status aside, they are still often subject to hostility from reactionaries and fundamentalists of...