ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most basic connection is to be found in musical narratives about violent people or violent acts. Violent imagery in pop music has become so commonplace that it would be gratuitous and patronizing to begin an inventory. Associated changes ranged from the introduction of new manufacturing technologies, to the criminalization of customary rights and perquisites. Small fires lit by patrons were extinguished by officials, to the annoyance of those who started them. The arrival onstage of Korn on the first night was accompanied by increased frenzy in the moshpit and a sudden influx of injury and OD cases at the medical station, and which was also the place and occasion of the first reported rapes. Vider's study is admirably nuanced, though underplaying the pervasive squalor, and decribing the festival as running 'relatively smoothly' until the last night. It is hard to reconcile this with the moshpit violence and sexual assaults of the previous days.
