Mélanie Seteun

A historicist approach of music genres.

Focus on the question of the economic and cultural value of music, which has re-emerged with the advent of streaming platforms.

A new milestone in the reflection on the challenges of creation in traditional music, and its recent aesthetic renewal.

This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.

A political anthropology of music that is resolutely critical, reflective and accessible, based on a study of the world of Burkinabe rap.

The analysis, history and reception of the Canterbury music scene between the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The purpose of this issue "Experts / Non Experts. Participative Knowledge Construction in Popular Music: Controversies and Historiography" is to offer a retrospective and critical reflection on popular music studies' initial vocation, to bring to light repertoires that are seldom studied and even sometimes discredited.

Issue dedicated to music as work.

How the question of legitimacy and authenticity has influenced the practices and receptions of hip-hop music.

An essential anthology of studies on music as it is played and lived throughout the world, from France to the United States via South Africa, which underlines Denis-Constant Martin's crucial role in the sociology of popular music. His works, which since the 1970s have questioned recorded and mediatized music by going beyond established musical categories, are striking in their contemporaneity.

This double issue explores new analytical methods to characterize the pop voice in its singularities.

This issue proposes to examine some of the points of contact between music and hacking.

A socio-political history of punk and post-punk covering four decades and three continents.

Special Metal issue.

Varia issue: Italo disco; French singer Olivia Ruiz; DIY punk fanzines in Russia; the political dimension of Ornette Coleman's music; Pop hits and new media strategy; interview with David Novak on Japanese noise; interview with Simon Frith on progressive rock. Illustrated with a selection of concert flyers.

Music video culture.

Jean-Marie Le Pen's far right music label; Rap Studies in Africa; Sampling in Palestinian rap; Bowie: the graphic art; Indie rock in Switzerland; Portugese punk rock; Multilinguism in French punk rock band Mano Negra… 35 authors have contributed to this “Varia” issue, which also inaugurates a new graphic design. Including special commissioned illustrations by artist Grégory Delauré.

This issue dedicated to Jamaican music studies presents and analyses the main characteristic features of these musical forms—from riddims to sound systems—and their associated issues—from culture to slackness. The publication features nine articles and twelve book reviews written by leading world experts (including 7 Jamaican researchers). Watch out Babylon!

The Punk Scene in France: Forty Years of History.

Special Beatles Studies issue.

This new “varia” issue of Volume! is made of six papers proposing different while often complementary perspectives on popular music (the role of the Hellfest festival in representations and uses of metal culture, discourses of loudness in rock music, recent evolutions in South American music, Damon Albarn and the English identity, La Monte Young vs The Velvet Underground). Also in the issue: Alf Björnberg and wind harmony, a musical device by Bruno Lefebvre...

Nostalgia in popular music: a whole scope of various insights on the phenomenon of nostalgia, within a diversity of genres: French chanson, Canadian country song, cold wave…

Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.

Listening: Discourses, Practices, Mediations.

Utopias, dystopias, and anarchy in the Sixties counterculture and popular music. Plus a special feature on heavy-metal studies.

Counterculture in popular music: theory & scenes.

What role do the representations of the Other, the body, women and race play in highly publicized cultural productions?

What is it we call “Black” music? A selection of texts from the April 2010 conference in Bordeaux based on a critical discussion of Philipp Tagg's open letter about “Black music,” “Afro-American Music” and “European Music.”

The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.

A sociological and musical study which shows how French female rapper Diam's contributed to introduce a series of social issues within the public debate.

Cover versions in popular music.

This issue of Volume! continues the investigation started in #7-1, with new questions raised about cover versions, including copyright, intertextuality, and genealogy

13 British and French researchers in popular music studies highlight the differences and similarities between two contexts and two research traditions to better understand the amplified music on both sides of the Channel.

An understanding of rock culture through its networks of actors, tastes, objects, systems, activities and practices.

A sociological analysis of the production mechanisms of amplified music in France in parallel with the development of French cultural industries.

An historical and sociocultural study on metal music, and the first sociological portrait of the movement in France.

This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.

If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.

From an industrial revolution to another, popular music at the forefront of social change in contemporary societies.