Mélanie Seteun

Mélanie Seteun editions publish academic work on popular music, as well as Volume! The French journal of popular music studies.
 
Paris
 
40 titles
Series:
 
Volume ! - La fin des genres musicaux ? Catégoriser les musiques populaires
2024
texts in English and French
forthcoming
A historicist approach of music genres.
Volume ! - La valeur de la musique
2023
texts in English and French
Focus on the question of the economic and cultural value of music, which has re-emerged with the advent of streaming platforms.
La création dans les musiques traditionnelles en France - L\'écho d\'un monde musical en effervescence
2023
French edition
A new milestone in the reflection on the challenges of creation in traditional music, and its recent aesthetic renewal.
Volume ! - Common Grounds – Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies
2023
texts in English and French
This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
Anna Cuomo - Faire carrière dans le rap au Burkina Faso - Une anthropologie politique de la musique
2022
French edition
A political anthropology of music that is resolutely critical, reflective and accessible, based on a study of the world of Burkinabe rap.
Volume ! - La scène de Canterbury
2022
texts in English and French
The analysis, history and reception of the Canterbury music scene between the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Volume ! - Experts / Non experts
2022
texts in English and French
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.
Volume ! - Back to work
2021
texts in English and French
Issue dedicated to music as work.
Volume ! - Le monde ou rien ? – Légitimité et authenticité dans les musiques hip hop
2020
texts in English and French
How the question of legitimacy and authenticity has influenced the practices and receptions of hip-hop music.
Denis-Constant Martin - Plus que de la musique... - Musiques, sociétés et politique, Caraïbes, États-Unis, Afrique du Sud
2020
French edition
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.
Volume ! - La voix pop – Nouveaux outils, nouvelles approches analytiques
2020
texts in English and French
This double issue explores new analytical methods to characterize the pop voice in its singularities.
Volume ! - Music a Hacking
2019
texts in English and French
This issue proposes to examine some of the points of contact between music and hacking.
Disorder - Histoire sociale des mouvements punk et post-punk
2019
French edition
A socio-political history of punk and post-punk covering four decades and three continents.
Volume ! - Varia
2018
texts in English and French
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.
Volume ! - Watching Music
2018
texts in English and French
Music video culture.
Volume ! - Varia
2017
texts in English and French
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.
Volume ! - Inna Jamaican Stylee
2017
texts in English and French
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!
Volume ! - La scène punk en France – 1976-2016
2016
texts in English and French
The Punk Scene in France: Forty Years of History.
Volume! - Special Beatles Studies
2016
texts in English and French
Special Beatles Studies issue.
Volume! - Varia
2015
texts in English and French
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...
Volume! - Souvenirs, souvenirs
2015
texts in English and French
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…
Volume! - Arranging the World
2014
texts in English and French
Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.
Volume! - Écoutes
2013
texts in English and French
currently out of stock
Listening: Discourses, Practices, Mediations.
Volume! - Contre-cultures II – Utopies, dystopies, anarchie
2013
texts in English and French
Utopias, dystopias, and anarchy in the Sixties counterculture and popular music. Plus a special feature on heavy-metal studies.
Volume! - Contre-cultures I – Théories et scènes
2012
texts in English and French
Counterculture in popular music: theory & scenes.
Volume! - Sex sells, Blackness too? – Stylisation des rapports de domination dans les cultures populaires et postcoloniales
2012
texts in English and French
What role do the representations of the Other, the body, women and race play in highly publicized cultural productions?
Volume! - Peut-on parler de musique noire ?
2011
texts in English and French
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.”
Anne Petiau - Technomedia - Jeunes, musique & blogosphère
2011
French edition
The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.
Denis-Constant Martin - Quand le rap sort de sa bulle - Sociologie politique d\'un succès populaire
2010
French edition
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.
Volume! - La reprise
2010
texts in English and French
Cover versions in popular music.
Volume! - La reprise Bis
2010
texts in English and French
This issue of Volume! continues the investigation started in #7-1, with new questions raised about cover versions, including copyright, intertextuality, and genealogy
Stéréo - Sociologie  comparée des musiques populaires – France / Grande-Bretagne
2008
French edition
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.
Fabien Hein - Le monde du rock - Ethnographie du réel
2006
French edition
An understanding of rock culture through its networks of actors, tastes, objects, systems, activities and practices.
Gérôme Guibert - La production de la culture - Le cas des musiques amplifiées en France – Genèses, structurations, industries, alternatives
2006
French edition
A sociological analysis of the production mechanisms of amplified music in France in parallel with the development of French cultural industries.
Fabien Hein - Hard rock, heavy metal, metal - Histoire, cultures et pratiquants
2004
French edition
(last copies available!)
An historical and sociocultural study on metal music, and the first sociological portrait of the movement in France.
Politiques des musiques populaires au XXIe siècle
2016
French edition
sold out
This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.
Volume! - Avec ma gueule de métèque
2015
texts in English and French
sold out
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.
Sound Factory - Musiques et logiques de l\'industrialisation
2012
French edition
sold out
From an industrial revolution to another, popular music at the forefront of social change in contemporary societies.
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