Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies

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.
 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! - 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.
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.”
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
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