Mélanie Seteun

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.