Volume!
Academic journal
Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies (subtitled in French: La revue des musiques populaires) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal, created in 2001, and "dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music".
History
The journal's first issue was published in 2002, under the title Copyright Volume!. It was created a year earlier by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol, and Samuel Étienne, and opted for its current name in 2009. Étienne was its first editor-in-chief (2002–2008), before Stéphane Dorin (2009), Gérôme Guibert (2010–2017), Emmanuel Parent (2017–2022) took over. In 2024, Catherine Rudent and Louise Barrière started their five-year term at the head of the journal.
Special issues
The journal publishes special issues on various topics in popular music studies, new musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology, geography, cultural history, cultural studies, aesthetics, communication studies, etc.
Recent topics include music genres (2023, n° 20–1), the relations between popular music studies and ethnomusicology (2022, n° 19–2), the Canterbury progressive rock scene (2022, n° 19–1), the question of expertise (2021, n° 18–2), work in popular music (2022, n° 18–1), hip-hop scenes (2021, n° 17–2), the pop voice (2021, n° 16-2/17-1), hacking (2020, n° 16–1), metal music (2019, n° 15–2), music videos (2018, n° 14–2), Jamaican Music (2017, n° 13–2), French punk scenes (2016, N° 13–1), The Beatles (2016, n° 12–2), French chanson and immigration (2015, n°12-1), "nostalgia" (2015, n°11-1), music and dance (2014, n°10-2), "listening" (2013, n°10-1), Black music (2011, n°8-1) gender and race issues in hip hop (2011, n°8-2), "metal studies", "countercultures" (2012, n°9-1 & 9–2), and cover versions (2010, n°7-1 & 7–2),
Volume! publishes a "varia" section for articles not related to the main topic, plus editorials, letters, and book reviews.
Publication & distribution
Publisher
From 2002 to 2024, the journal was published by the independent publishing association Éditions Mélanie Seteun, which specializes in popular music studies.
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