Guest editorial

Yet, while there is indeed evidence of accessibility and inclusivity initiatives in the live music industry (Bossey, 2020), the supposed benefits of concerts and music festivals as open, inclusive, egalitarian, and positive are undermined by reports of sexual assault and the need for safe space policies within those same sites (Arnold, 2018;Hill et al., 2019). Moving to live music regulation practices, Jacopo Costa's article examines Espace Django, a French concert venue that benefits, like many French institutions, from state funding. [...]Arno van der Hoeven et al. analyse the methodologies used for measuring the value of live music and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these.