Volume!

The journal's first issue was published in 2002,{{cite journal |doi=10.3917/res.141.0015 |title=En arrière la musique ! Sociologies des musiques populaires en france. La genèse d'un champ |year=2007 |last1=Le Guern |first1=Philippe |journal=Réseaux |volume=25 |issue=141–142 |pages=15 |url=http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=RES_141_0015 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |doi=10.3917/mouv.047.0220 |title=À propos des musiques populaires : Le rock |year=2006 |last1=Brandl |first1=Emmanuel |journal=Mouvements |volume=47-48 |issue=5 |pages=220 |doi-access=free }} 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.

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The journal publishes special issues on various topics in popular music studies, new musicology, ethnomusicology,{{cite journal |title=Twenty First Century Popular Music Studies |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=1–14 |author=Rupert Till |journal=IASPM@Journal |date=June 2013 |doi=10.5429/2079-3871(2013)v3i2.1en |doi-access=free }}: "There are various other international journals that mix PMS and ethnomusicological approaches, often based within, and reaching out from, a particular region. These include journals such as Latin American Music Review, South African Music Studies, Brazilian Journal of Song Studies, and Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies''." 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),Cf. [https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/ping-pong/sebastien-carayol-et-thomas-vendryes this interview] with the editor, on France Culture. French punk scenes (2016, N° 13–1),Cf. [https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-marche-de-l-histoire/la-marche-de-l-histoire-30-novembre-2016 this interview] with the editors, on France Inter, [https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/histoire-de-la-jeunesse-14-la-jeunesse-des-annees-80 this one] on France Culture. The Beatles (2016, n° 12–2),Cf. [https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/continent-musiques/sgt-peppers-et-autres-destins this interview] with Olivier Julien on France Culture, [http://www.hors-serie.net/Diagonale-Sonore/2016-04-23/Pourquoi-pas-les-Beatles--id178 this one] on the program "Diagonale Sonore", or [http://www.iremus.cnrs.fr/fr/publications/volume-special-beatles-studies this page]. French chanson and immigration (2015, n°12-1),Charline Lecarpentier, "[http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2016/01/25/de-la-diversite-dans-la-variete_1428871 De la diversité dans la variété]", Libération, 26 January 2016.The selected proceedings of the [http://www.pangee-network.com/2013/10/08/journees-detudes-avec-ma-gueule-de-meteque/ conference] held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. "nostalgia" (2015, n°11-1),Raphaël Bourgois, "[http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-la-grande-table-2eme-partie-pourquoi-la-musique-2015-03-05 Le pouvoir nostalgique de la musique]", France Culture, "La Grande Table", 5 March 2015. music and dance (2014, n°10-2),[http://www.cairn.info/revue-volume-2014-1.htm Table of contents here] "listening" (2013, n°10-1),Cf. [http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/label-pop/2013-2014/jedediah-sklower-et-catherine-guesde-revue-volume-02-17-2014-14-09 this interview] on Vincent Théval's show "Label Pop" on France Musique. Black music (2011, n°8-1){{cite web |url=http://www.mondomix.com/actualite/1548/yves-raibaud-les-musiques-noires-obligent-a-envisager-les-influences-et-les-metissages.htm |title=Les musiques noires, des musiques liées à la couleur de peau ? |author=François Mauger |work=Mondomix |access-date=2012-07-31}}, {{cite web |url=http://www.europe1.fr/Musique/La-musique-noire-existe-t-elle-vraiment-1906775/ |title=La "musique noire" existe-t-elle vraiment ? |author=Susie Bourquier |work=Europe1 |date=6 March 2014 |access-date=2014-03-06}} gender and race issues in hip hop (2011, n°8-2),Cf. Frédéric Sylvanise, [http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Y-a-t-il-une-musique-noire " Y a-t-il une musique noire ? "], La Vie des idées, 29 October 2012. {{ISSN|2105-3030}}. "metal studies",[http://www.franceculture.fr/oeuvre-les-scenes-metal-sciences-sociales-et-pratiques-culturelles-radicales-de-gerome-guibert France Culture] documentary on the Hellfest. "countercultures" (2012, n°9-1 & 9–2),Cf. [http://www.citazine.fr/article/volume-fait-prendre-de-hauteur this review] on the website Citazine, [http://fgo-barbara.fr/1226 this conference] at the Centre Barbara-Fleury Goutte d'Or. and cover versions (2010, n°7-1 & 7–2),Cf. Jacques Munier during his segment "[http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-a-plus-d-un-titre-l-actualite-de-la-bande-dessinee-l-actualite-des-revues-2010-09-17.html L'actualité des revues]" on France Culture, or Éric Deshayes on the website [http://neospheres.free.fr/disques/volume-reprise.htm Néosphères]. Cf. Thomas Vendryes (and Emmanuel Parent) [http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-la-fabrique-de-l-histoire-musiques-noires-34-2014-03-19 interviewed] on France Culture, about his article on cover versions in Jamaican music.

Volume! publishes a "varia" section for articles not related to the main topic, plus editorials, letters, and book reviews.

From 2002 to 2024, the journal was published by the independent publishing association Éditions Mélanie Seteun, which specializes in popular music studies. In 2025, it will join the catalogue of the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

It's print version was originally distributed by the IRMA (now part of the French National Centre for Music), and has been distributed by {{Interlanguage link|Les Presses du réel|fr}} since 2015.

Since November 2011, Volume ! was included in the French academic journals portal OpenEdition (formerly Revues.org){{cite web |url=http://www.openedition.org/9173 |title=Volume ! |work=OpenEdition |access-date=2012-07-31}} and since December 2011 in the Belgian portal, Cairn.info (six latest issues, four under restricted access). Since June 2016, it is also on RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text.Cf.[http://rilm.org/fulltext/?journaltitle=volume RILM Abstracts with Full text].

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the International Index to Music Periodicals,[http://www.proquest.com/documents/Title-List-International-Index-to-Music-Periodicals-Full-Text.html International Index to Music Periodicals title list]. the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale,[http://journals.rilm.org/index.asp?alpha=V RILM Abstracts of Music Literature]. the Music Index and Music & Performing Arts Online. The articles dealing with jazz are indexed on the Jazz Institut Darmstadt bibliography[http://www.jazzinstitut.de/us.htm Jazz Institut website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427174332/http://www.jazzinstitut.de/us.htm |date=2007-04-27 }}. and the ones dealing with heavy metal/hard rock on the University of Central Missouri/ISMMS's metal studies bibliography.[http://www.ucmo.edu/metalstudies/metal_studies_home.html here]. A first version of this bibliography, edited by Keith Kahn Harris and Fabien Hein, was published in Volume! [http://journals.openedition.org/volume/467?lang=en here]. Volume ! is registered by the AERESAs an independent administrative authority set up in 2007, the AERES (French evaluation agency for research and higher education) is tasked with evaluating research and higher education institutions, research organisations, research units, higher education programmes and degrees and with approving their staff evaluation procedures ([http://www.aeres-evaluation.com/Agency/Presentation/Profile-of-the-Agency Profile of the Agency]).{{failed verification|date=June 2014}} in the 18th section ("Arts").

The journal is classified by the AERES (18th section of the CNU, May 2012). It is published with the support of the French National Book Center (Centre national du livre)[http://www.centrenationaldulivre.fr/IMG/pdf/Bilan_des_aides_2009_COULEURS_sans_assistance_culturelle.pdf Bilan annuel des aides 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105095846/http://centrenationaldulivre.fr/IMG/pdf/Bilan_des_aides_2009_COULEURS_sans_assistance_culturelle.pdf |date=2011-11-05 }}, French National Book Center and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[http://www.cnrs.fr/inshs/recherche/docs/revues-soutenues2011.pdf Revues soutenues en 2011], INSHS, CNRS; [http://www.cnrs.fr/inshs/recherche/docs/soutien-revues2010.pdf Revues soutenues en 2010], INSHS, CNRS. In 2024, it gained the support of the {{Interlanguage link|Centre national de la musique|fr}}.

The journal is a frequent partner of the French-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). In 2010, it established an "early research" (formerly "young researchers") prize with the French-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.{{cite web |url=https://journals.openedition.org/volume/2832 |title=Prix « Premières recherches » de l'IASPM – branche francophone d'Europe |date=10 November 2023 |publisher=IASPM - branche francophone d'Europe |access-date=2024-03-21}}

Volume! and the Éditions Mélanie Seteun were in charge of the electronic publication of the first French academic journal dedicated to popular music Vibrations. Musiques, médias, société, created by Antoine Hennion, Jean-Rémy Julien and Jean-Claude Klein in the mid-1980s, on the French academic portal Persée.[http://www.persee.fr/collection/vibra Vibrations], on Persée.

It also published a special international, English edition of its "countercultures" issues with Ashgate Publishing (now owned by Routledge)Cf. Jordan Blum, [http://www.popmatters.com/review/187143-countercultures-and-popular-music-by-jedediah-sklower-and-sheila-whi/ Review of Countercultures and Popular Music], Pop Matters, 13 November 2014, and [http://www.popmatters.com/feature/189114-the-best-books-of-2014-nonfiction/P1/ this review]. 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.Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern (2010), [http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409405689 Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain], Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4094-0568-9}} ; Sheila Whiteley et Jedediah Sklower (2014), [http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472421067 Countercultures and Popular Music], Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4724-2106-7}}.

It has co-organized many conferences, among which:

• "Rock and violences in Europe (1955-1990)", in 2017;[http://journals.openedition.org/volume/5315?lang=en/ Programme].
• "Conçues pour durer. Perspectives francophones sur les musiques hip-hop";[https://colloquehh.hypotheses.org/126 Programme.], in 2017
• "Heavy metal et sciences sociales : un état des lieux de la recherche francophone" in Angers (December 2014),;Sophian Fanen, [http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2014/12/26/le-metal-donne-a-ses-fans-une-forme-d-energie-face-a-l-adversite_1170403 Gérôme Guibert : "Le metal donne à ses fans une forme d'énergie face à l'adversité"], Libération, 26 December 2014.Cf. the [http://heavymetal.sciencesconf.org/conference/heavymetal/pages/programme_heavymetal.pdf program here].
• the 2013 "Changing the Tune. Popular music and politics in the XXIst century" international conference in Strasbourg[http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-temps-des-medias-2013-2-page-203.htm this review] of the conference in the academic journal Le Temps des Médias, [http://www.rue89strasbourg.com/index.php/evenements/musiques-populaires-et-politique-au-xxie-siecle/Rue89 this announcement], in the journal Rue 89, or [http://www.sibetrans.com/noticias.php?a=ficha&id=462 this reference] on the journal Sibetrans. with the German association ASPM and the French branch of the IASPM.;[http://www.iaspm.net/volume/ Popular Music and Politics] CFP, mentioning the [http://aspm.ni.lo-net2.de/info/ ASPM].
• 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.;[http://www.consulfrance-toronto.org/spip.php?article2638 the presentation of the conference].
• "What is it we call "Black music"?" in Bordeaux, 2010.[http://www.irma.asso.fr/Peut-on-parler-de-musique-noire?xtor=EPR-43 Presentation].

It organizes events (conferences, concerts) with various institutions, such as the Musée du Quai Branly,[http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/enseignement/actualites.html Musée du Quai Branly]. the Centre Georges Pompidou public library,"Trafic de Stéréotypes. Le rap, entre business et style", [http://www.bpi.fr/modules/resources/download/default/La_Bpi_et_vous/De_ligne_en_ligne/9/index.html#/32/ De Ligne en ligne] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108040806/http://www.bpi.fr/modules/resources/download/default/La_Bpi_et_vous/De_ligne_en_ligne/9/index.html#/32/ |date=2012-11-08 }} n°9, October 2012, pp. 32-33, broadcast on France Culture [http://plus.franceculture.fr/partenaires/bibliotheque-publique-d-information/sex-sells-blackness-too here]. the Cité de la Musique,{{cite web |url=http://www.citedelamusique.fr/francais/evenement.aspx?id=12751 |title=POP MUSIC - POP MUSÉE - Un nouveau défi patrimonial |publisher=Cité de la musique |access-date=2012-07-31}}; [http://www.irma.asso.fr/IMG/pdf/pop_music_pop_musee_17_nov.pdf download the programme]. the Philharmonie de Paris,The conferences "[http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/colloque/16927-la-scene-punk-en-france La scène punk en France]", "[http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/colloque/16926-watching-music watching music]. La Gaîté Lyrique,[http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/en/event/a-century-of-hip-hop this conference on hip-hop], or this series on "[http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/rencontre/black-et-queer-nouvelles-approches-des-musiques-noires blackness and queerness] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222212343/http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/rencontre/black-et-queer-nouvelles-approches-des-musiques-noires |date=2014-02-22 }}", [http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/rencontre/teenage-kicks popular music and teenagers] and [http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/rencontre/how-to-have-a-number-one-the-easy-way-la-fabrique-du-succes musical hits] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222212358/http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/rencontre/how-to-have-a-number-one-the-easy-way-la-fabrique-du-succes |date=2014-02-22 }}. the Collège International de Philosophie,[http://www.ciph.org/activites.php?rub=agenda&date=20131126 this series of conferences] on listening to "electrified music". or the Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or-Barbara,[http://fgo-barbara.fr/853 this conference] on gender and racial issues in hip-hop, [http://fgo-barbara.fr/1226 this one] on popular music and the 1960s counterculture. as well as with record labels/festivals, such as the festival "F.A.M.E. Film Music & Experience" in March 2014,[http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/FAME2014 Three debates].[http://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2014/03/13/fame-la-musique-plein-champ_986739 Article] in Libération. or in May 2012, the "Humanist Records Festival #3"{{cite web |url=http://cargocollective.com/humanistrecordsfestival/PARTENAIRES-1 |title= Partenaires |publisher=Humanist Records Festival #3 |access-date=2012-07-31}}. and venues, such as the Point Éphémère.Debate on "Sound Factory", [http://www.pointephemere.org/?cat=14 here], published by the Éditions Mélanie Seteun, on [http://www.pointephemere.org/?cat=14#4 the "countercultures" issue] as well as on the "[http://www.pointephemere.org/?cat=14#5 listening]" one.

The "Great Black Music"Term coined by members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago in the mid-1960s.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} exhibit at the Cité de la Musique[http://www.greatblackmusic.fr/ Exhibit's website]. in Paris was co-curated by journalist Marc Benaïche and ethnomusicologist Emmanuel Parent.The [http://www.greatblackmusic.fr/fr/lexposition/ presentation of the exhibit].The following articles and interviews: in Telerama [http://www.telerama.fr/musique/emmanuel-parent-la-notion-de-musique-noire-ne-peut-naitre-que-d-un-point-de-vue-americain,109637.php here], Libération [http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2014/02/28/l-approche-raciale-de-la-musique-a-ete-portee-par-les-noirs-eux-memes_983634 here], L'Humanité [https://www.humanite.fr/culture/la-grande-musique-noire-brasier-de-resistance-560610 here], Le Point [http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/great-black-music-une-immersion-audiovisuelle-dans-les-musiques-noires-11-03-2014-1799537_3.php here], Europe 1 [http://www.europe1.fr/Musique/La-musique-noire-existe-t-elle-vraiment-1906775/ here], TSF Jazz [http://www.tsfjazz.com/programme-detail.php?idd=8357 here]. The latter, a member of the journal's team since 2004,[http://www.irma.asso.fr/Emmanuel-Parent CV Emmanuel Parent]. had co-organized the 2010 "What is it we call Black Music?" (Peut-on parler de musique noire ?) conference in Bordeaux[http://www.ades.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article673 here]. whose proceedings were published in Volume! (n°8-1, 2011). He was also in charge of editing the exhibit's catalogue.Actes Sud's [http://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/musique/great-black-music website]

From October 2012 to January 2013, Volume! editors were offered sequences on François Saltiel's show on Le Mouv'.,[http://www.lemouv.fr/diffusion-le-rock-peut-il-resonner-au-musee show on rock museums], [http://www.lemouv.fr/diffusion-forum-sonik-17 Show on the counterculture in France]. and the Radio Télévision Suisse dedicated two issues of "Histoire Vivante" to Volume! in October 2013.Cf. [http://www.rts.ch/docs/histoire-vivante/5267296-l-arme-de-la-musique-3-5.html this interview] of G. Guibert and [http://www.rts.ch/docs/histoire-vivante/5265897-l-arme-de-la-musique-4-5.html this one] of J. Sklower. A partnership with the website {{Interlanguage link|La vie des idées|fr}}, created by historian Pierre Rosanvallon, to publish reviews of books dealing with popular music, was started in November 2013.[http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Le-bruissement-de-la-raison.html "Le bruissement de la raison"], 2 December 2013, or [http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Dancing-with-the-Devil.html "Dancing with the devil. Panorama des 'metal studies'"], 5 November 2013.

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