The Éditions Mélanie Seteun are a publishing association dedicated to "taking popular music seriously,Frith, Simon, Taking Popular Music Seriously, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 343.Tagg, Philip, "«Faciliter l’étude de la musique populaire est un enjeu démocratique», Sforzando, IX/2, 2005, p. 9. . especially within the French-speaking world. They publish Volume! the French Journal of Popular Music Studies, book collections ("Musique et Société", "Musique et environnement professionnel"), and participate in several activities promoting their field of study in France.
Publications Book collections The Éditions Mélanie Seteun started their activities by creating the "Music et Société" collection of books dealing with popular music, as well as one others (politics with the "Rock & Politics" collection, and more recently, popular music and institutions with the "Musique et Environnement professionnel" collection).
Volume ! the French Journal of Popular Music Studies
The founders, Gérôme Guibert and Samuel Étienne, founded Volume! in 2002 with Marie-Pierre Bonniol, to create an academic space for popular music studies. The journal has published, as of 2017, 29 issues, on themes such as countercultures, black music, postcolonialism, the alternative music press.
Volume! has been online since 2013, on French-speaking portals Revues.org and Cairn.info, as well as on RILM Abstracts with Full Text"RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text", Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, archived 7 December 2017. since 2016.
Vibrations. Musiques, médias, société The Éditions Mélanie Seteun have directed the electronic publication of the first French popular music studies journal , created by Antoine Hennion, Jean-Rémy Julien and Jean-Claude Klein in the mid-1980s, on the French academic portal Persée."Vibrations. Musiques, médias, société", Persée.
Ashgate partnership It also published a special international, English edition of its "countercultures" issues with Ashgate Publishing,Blum, Jordan Blum, "'Countercultures and Popular Music' is talkin' 'bout my generation", Pop Matters, 13 November 2014. "The Best Books of 2014: Nonfiction", Pop Matters, 9 January 2015. a partnership with the Éditions Mélanie Seteun that had already taken place for the publication of the book Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain.Dauncey, Hugh & Le Guern, Philippe, "Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain", Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. .Whiteley, Sheila & Sklower, Jedediah (eds), "Countercultures and Popular Music", Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. .
Events Conferences It has co-organized many conferences, including: "What is it we call "Black music"?" in Bordeaux, 2010;"Peut-on parler de musique noire ?", Centre d'information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles, 1 April 2010. . In November 2012, it participated in the conference on "Digital Publishing in the Humanities. Perspectives from France and Canada" organized by the French Consulate in Toronto, the French Institute, the University of Toronto, and York University;"Conférences sur les revues numériques – 22 novembre 2012", Consulat Général de France à Toronto, 22 November 2012. . "Changing the Tune. Popular music and politics in the XXIst century" international conference in Strasbourg in 2013;Guibert, Gérôme, "« Changing the Tune : Musiques populaires et politique au xxie siècle, de la chute du communisme au printemps arabe », Colloque international, Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Strasbourg, 7-8 juin 2013", Le Temps des Médias, vol. 2, no. 21, pp. 203-208, 2013. .Ollivier, Sarah. "Musiques populaires et politique au XXIE siecle", Rue 89, 2013. ."'Changing the Tune': popular music & politics int he 21st century form the fall of communism to the Arab Spring", Sociedad de Etnomusicología, 10 December 2012. with the German association ASPM and the French branch of the IASPM.;Volume! International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 17 October 2012."1) 3. ASPM-Workshop: Quantitative empirische Methoden in der Popularmusikforschung - Gießen, 1.-3. Oktober 2010", Arbeitskreis Studium Populärer Musik, October 2010. . "Heavy metal et sciences sociales : un état des lieux de la recherche francophone" in Angers (December 2014),;Fanen, Sophian, "Interview: Gérôme Guibert: 'Le metal donne à ses fans une forme d'énergie face à l'adversité'", Libération, 26 December 2014. ."Heavy Metal et Sciences Sociales", December 2014. . "Rock and violences in Europe (1955-1990)", in 2017;"Rock et violences en Europe (1955-1990)", OpenEdition, 2017. . "Conçues pour durer. Perspectives francophones sur les musiques hip-hop" in 2017."Demandez le Programme!" OpenEdition, 22 December 2016. .
Partnerships with institutions It organizes events (conferences, concerts) with various institutions, such as the Musée du Quai Branly,"Le son de la réussite", Musée du Quai Branly, 5 April 2026. . the Centre Georges Pompidou public library,"Trafic de Stéréotypes. Le rap, entre business et style", De Ligne en ligne, no. 9, October 2012, pp. 32-33. ."Sex sells. Blackness too ?" France Culture, 14 December 2012. . the Cité de la Musique,"Pop music - pop musée", Cité de la musique, 17 November 2012."Cité de la musique", Centre d'information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles, November 2012. . the Philharmonie de Paris,"La scène punk en France", Philharmonie de Paris, November 2016. ."Watching Music", Philharmonie de Paris, December 2016. . La Gaîté Lyrique,"A century of hip-hop", La Gaîté Lyrique, December 2013. ."Black et queer?" La Gaîté Lyrique, March 2014. ."Teenage kicks", La Gaîté Lyrique, March 2014. ."How to have a number one the easy way", La Gaîté Lyrique, March 2014. . the Collège International de Philosophie,"Agenda", Collège International de Philosophie, November 2013. . or the Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or-Barbara,"Homepage", Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or-Barbara. . as well as with record labels/festivals, such as the festival "F.A.M.E. Film Music & Experience" in March 2014,"F. A. M. E. - Film & Music Experience", La Gaîté Lyrique, March 2014. .Fanen, Sophian, "Festival Fame: la musique plein champ", Libération, 13 March 2014. . or in May 2012, the "Humanist Records Festival #3""Partenaires", Humanist Records Festival #3. . and venues, such as the Point Éphémère."Programmation", Point Éphémère, June 2011.
The "Great Black Music" exhibit at the Cité de la Musique"Homepage", Cité de la Musique. . in Paris was co-curated by journalist Marc Benaïche and ethnomusicologist Emmanuel Parent.*"Great Black Music: Les musiques noires dans le monde", Cité de la Musique. .*Gorin, Francois & Rigoulet, Laurent, "Emmanuel Parent: "La notion de musique noire ne peut naître que d'un point de vue américain", Télérama, 10 March 2014.*Launet, Edouard & Fanen, Sophian. "Emmanuel Parent: «L’approche raciale de la musique a été portée par les Noirs eux-mêmes»", Libération, 28 February 2014. .*"La grande musique noire, brasier de résistance", L'Humanité, 7 March 2014. .*"Great Black Music: une immersion audiovisuelle dans les musiques noires", Le Point, 11 March 2014. .*Bourquin, Susie, "La 'musique noire' existe-t-elle vraiment ?, Europe 1, 6 March 2014. .*"Les Matins Jazz", TSF Jazz, March 2014. . The latter, a member of the journal's team since 2004,"Emmanuel Parent", Centre d'information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles. . had co-organized the 2010 "What is it we call Black Music?" (Peut-on parler de musique noire ?) conference in Bordeaux"Colloque puet-on parler de musique noire ? 12 et 13 AVRIL 2010, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, April 2010. . whose proceedings were published in Volume! (n°8-1, 2011). He was also in charge of editing the exhibit's catalogue."Great Black Music", Actes Sud, 2014. .
Media From October 2012 to January 2013, Volume! editors were offered sequences on François Saltiel's show on Le Mouv'.,Saltiel, François, "Chanson d'actu: le rock peut-il résonner au musée", Le Mouv', 22 November 2012. .Saltiel, François, "Forum Sonik: Chroniques 'Volume'/La Contre Culture ?", Le Mouv', 20 December 2012. . and the Radio Télévision Suisse dedicated two issues of "Histoire Vivante" to Volume! in October 2013."L'arme de la musique (3/5): Entretien avec Gérôme Guibert", Radio Télévision Suisse, 9 October 2013. ."L'arme de la musique (4/5): entretien avec Jedediah Sklower", Radio Télévision Suisse, 10 October 2013. . A partnership with the website , created by historian Pierre Rosanvallon, to publish reviews of books dealing with popular music, was started in November 2013.Kaltenecker, Martin, "Le bruissement de la raison", La vie des idées, 2 December 2013. .Guibert, Gérôme & Sklower, Jedediah, "Dancing with the devil. Panorama des 'metal studies'", La vie des idées, 5 November 2013. .
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