This second issue of
Volume! deals with the sixties counterculture's modernist and utopian aspects, as well as its dystopian and apocalyptic ones, with Charles Manson's shadow and the ambivalent Jesus Movement. We then examine the era's musical experimentations, with the “freak” movements sonic anarchy, the Grateful Dead's improvizations and
Yoko Ono's voice.
A big “metal studies” chapter assesses this “discipline's” recent contribution to the analysis of popular music.
Volume! The French journal of popular music studies is the only peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of contemporary popular
music. It is published biannually by the
Editions Mélanie Seteun, a publishing association specialized in popular music. The journal is in French with some non-translated articles in English.
Volume! was established in 2002 under the title
Copyright Volume! by
Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol and
Samuel Etienne, and obtained its current name in 2008.
