Éditions Mélanie Seteun

The Éditions Mélanie Seteun are a publishing association dedicated to "taking popular music seriously,[1] 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.

Éditions Mélanie Seteun
StatusAssociation
Founded1998
FounderSamuel Étienne & Gérôme Guibert
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationGuichen
DistributionLes presses du réel
Publication typesVolume!, "Musique et Société" collection
Nonfiction topicspopular music studies publications & events
Owner(s)Association Mélanie Seteun
Official websitejournals.openedition.org/volume/

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).

Main article: Volume!

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[2] since 2016.

Vibrations. Musiques, médias, société

The Éditions Mélanie Seteun have directed the electronic publication of the first French popular music studies journal 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.[3]

Ashgate partnership

It also published a special international, English edition of its "countercultures" issues with Ashgate Publishing,[4] 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.[5]

Events

Conferences

It has co-organized many conferences, among which:

  • "Rock and violences in Europe (1955-1990)", in 2017;[6]
  • "Conçues pour durer. Perspectives francophones sur les musiques hip-hop";[7]
  • "Heavy metal et sciences sociales : un état des lieux de la recherche francophone" in Angers (December 2014),;[8][9]
  • the 2013 "Changing the Tune. Popular music and politics in the XXIst century" international conference in Strasbourg[10] with the German association ASPM and the French branch of the IASPM.;[11]
  • 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.;[12]
  • "What is it we call “Black music”?" in Bordeaux, 2010.[13]

Partnerships with institutions

It organizes events (conferences, concerts) with various institutions, such as the Musée du Quai Branly,[14] the Centre Georges Pompidou public library,[15] the Cité de la Musique,[16] the Philharmonie de Paris,[17] La Gaîté Lyrique,[18] the Collège International de Philosophie,[19] or the Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or-Barbara,[20] as well as with record labels/festivals, such as the festival "F.A.M.E. Film Music & Experience" in March 2014,[21][22] or in May 2012, the "Humanist Records Festival #3"[23] and venues, such as the Point Éphémère.[24]

The "Great Black Music"[25] exhibit at the Cité de la Musique[26] in Paris was co-curated by journalist Marc Benaïche and ethnomusicologist Emmanuel Parent.[27][28] The latter, a member of the journal's team since 2004,[29] had co-organized the 2010 "What is it we call Black Music?" (Peut-on parler de musique noire ?) conference in Bordeaux[30] whose proceedings were published in Volume! (n°8-1, 2011). He was also in charge of editing the exhibit's catalogue.[31]

Media

From October 2012 to January 2013, Volume! editors were offered sequences on François Saltiel's show on Le Mouv'.,[32] and the Radio Télévision Suisse dedicated two issues of "Histoire Vivante" to Volume! in October 2013.[33] A partnership with the website La vie des idées, created by historian Pierre Rosanvallon, to publish reviews of books dealing with popular music, was started in November 2013.[34]

References
  1. Simon Frith, Taking Popular Music Seriously, Ashgate, 2007, 343 pp. Cf. also this interview with Philip Tagg.
  2. See the portal's list
  3. Vibrations, on Persée.
  4. Cf. Jordan Blum, Review of Countercultures and Popular Music, Pop Matters, 13 November 2014, and this review.
  5. Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern (2010), 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), Countercultures and Popular Music, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4724-2106-7.
  6. Programme.
  7. Programme., in 2017
  8. Sophian Fanen, Gérôme Guibert : «Le metal donne à ses fans une forme d’énergie face à l’adversité», Libération, 26 December 2014.
  9. Cf. the program here.
  10. this review of the conference in the academic journal Le Temps des Médias, this announcement, in the journal Rue 89, or this reference on the journal Sibetrans.
  11. Popular Music and Politics CFP, mentioning the ASPM.
  12. the presentation of the conference.
  13. Presentation.
  14. Musée du Quai Branly.
  15. "Trafic de Stéréotypes. Le rap, entre business et style", De Ligne en ligne n°9, October 2012, pp. 32-33, broadcast on France Culture here.
  16. "POP MUSIC - POP MUSÉE - Un nouveau défi patrimonial". Cité de la musique. Retrieved 2012-07-31.; download the programme.
  17. The conferences "La scène punk en France", "watching music.
  18. this conference on hip-hop, or this series on "blackness and queerness", popular music and teenagers and musical hits.
  19. this series of conferences on listening to "electrified music".
  20. this conference on gender and racial issues in hip-hop, this one on popular music and the 1960s counterculture.
  21. Three debates.
  22. Article in Libération.
  23. "Partenaires". Humanist Records Festival #3. Retrieved 2012-07-31..
  24. Debate on "Sound Factory", here, published by the Éditions Mélanie Seteun, on the "countercultures" issue as well as on the "listening" one.
  25. Term coined by members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago in the mid-1960s.
  26. Exhibit's website.
  27. The presentation of the exhibit.
  28. The following articles and interviews: in Telerama here, Libération here, L'Humanité here, Le Point here, Europe 1 here, TSF Jazz here.
  29. CV Emmanuel Parent.
  30. here.
  31. Actes Sud's website
  32. show on rock museums, Show on the counterculture in France.
  33. Cf. this interview of G. Guibert and this one of J. Sklower.
  34. "Le bruissement de la raison", 2 December 2013, or "Dancing with the devil. Panorama des 'metal studies'", 5 November 2013.
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