Cultural Studies

Special Beatles Studies issue.

An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.

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…

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

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

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.

Listening: Discourses, Practices, Mediations.

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

An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.

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.

12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

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.

A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).

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.

16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world.

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

An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.

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

An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.

A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Sound American's 25th issue celebrates explores the intersections of folk and experimental music practices (edited by Sarah Hennies and Anna Roberts-Gevalt, featuring Throbbing Gristle, Henry Flynt, Suzanne Kite and Scott Benesiinaabandan, John McCowen, Meredith Monk and Peggy Seeger...).

Publication documenting a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, used to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider. It gathers contributions by artists, sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, and priests, and features a large ensemble of photographs.

Limited edition including a double LP compilation and a 168-page publication gathering a complete documentation on Tarantismo, a project dedicated to a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider.

A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.

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.

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

The history and contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement.