Cultural Studies

This double issue explores new analytical methods to characterize the pop voice in its singularities.

This issue proposes to examine some of the points of contact between music and hacking.

A socio-political history of punk and post-punk covering four decades and three continents.

Special Metal issue.

Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.

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

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.

For its twelfth issue, Initiales pays tribute to Sylvère Lotringer who, in the 1970s, imported the French Theory in the United States.

Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.

Music video culture.

A collection of transdisciplinary essays considering the recently renewed interest for the concept of density in both architecture and artistic research.

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.

This book focuses on the distinctiveness of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. These stars were cast for their specific dancing or singing skills, that could be recognized by audiences and sold by the studios' publicity machine. They acquired Hollywood stardom through a dialogue with highbrow culture and mass industry, that cinema tried to bring into harmony. This collection brings together the contributions of American, British and French researchers.

This study offers a reflexion on the complex temporality in the series Breaking Bad. The author develop her theories through examples coming from the show's various visual elements and masterful temporal and narrative structuring.

A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.

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!

The Punk Scene in France: Forty Years of History.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

First French translation of a pioneering study on Hollywood musicals.

Elisabeth Bronfen gives a clever analysis on one of the most influential show of the 21th century, arguing that, beyond the retro-revival, Mad Men builds a comment on the state of the US nation and on the mirage of the American Dream.

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.

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.