Volume!
Volume! The French journal of popular music studies (subtitled in French:La revue des musiques populaires - The journal of popular music studies) is a biannual (May and November) peer-reviewed academic journal "dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music". It is published by Éditions Mélanie Seteun, a publishing association specialized since 1998 in the cultural sociology of popular music.
History
Volume! was established in 2002 under the title Copyright Volume! by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol, and Samuel Étienne, and obtained its current name in 2009. Étienne (Université de la Polynésie Française) was its first editor-in-chief (2002–2008), before Guibert (University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle) took over in 2008.
Special issues
The journal publishes special issues on various topics in popular music studies, new musicology, ethnomusicology,sociology, geography, cultural history, cultural studies, aesthetics, etc.
Recent topics include cover versions (2010, n°7-1 & 7-2),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), "listening" (2013, n°10-1), music and dance (2014, n°10-2)., "nostalgia" (2015, n°11-1) and French chanson and immigration (2015, n°12-1).