The Éditions Mélanie Seteun are a publishing association dedicated to "taking

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seriously, 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 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.

Ashgate partnership

It also published a special international, English edition of its "countercultures" issues with

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, 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''.

Events

Conferences

It has co-organized many conferences, among which: * "Rock and violences in Europe (1955-1990)", in 2017; * "Conçues pour durer. Perspectives francophones sur les musiques hip-hop"; *"''Heavy metal et sciences sociales : un état des lieux de la recherche francophone''" in Angers (December 2014),; * the 2013 "Changing the Tune. Popular music and politics in the XXIst century" international conference in Strasbourg with the German association ASPM and the French branch of the IASPM.; * 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

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, the

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, and

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.; * "What is it we call "Black music"?" in Bordeaux, 2010.

Partnerships with institutions

It organizes events (conferences, concerts) with various institutions, such as the Musée du Quai Branly, the

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public library, the

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, the

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, La Gaîté Lyrique, the

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, or the Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or-Barbara, as well as with

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, such as the festival "F.A.M.E. Film Music & Experience" in March 2014, or in May 2012, the "Humanist Records Festival #3" and venues, such as the Point Éphémère. The "Great Black Music" exhibit at the

in Paris was co-curated by journalist Marc Benaïche and ethnomusicologist Emmanuel Parent. The latter, a member of the journal's team since 2004, had co-organized the 2010 "What is it we call Black Music?" (''Peut-on parler de musique noire ?'') conference in

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whose proceedings were published in ''Volume!'' (n°8-1, 2011). He was also in charge of editing the exhibit's catalogue.

Media

From October 2012 to January 2013, ''Volume!'' editors were offered sequences on François Saltiel's show on

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., and the

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dedicated two issues of "Histoire Vivante" to ''Volume!'' in 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."Le bruissement de la raison"
2 December 2013, o

5 November 2013.

References

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External links

Volume's first website
Music journals Multilingual journals Popular music Academic journals established in 1998 Delayed open access journals Biannual journals 1998 establishments in France