Éditions Mélanie Seteun Explained

Éditions Mélanie Seteun
Status:Association
Founded:1998
Founder:Samuel Étienne & Gérôme Guibert
Country:France
Headquarters:Guichen
Distribution:Les presses du réel
Publications:Volume!, "Musique et Société" collection
Topics:popular music studies publications & events
Owner:Association Mélanie Seteun
Website:journals.openedition.org/volume/

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.

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

See main article: article and 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 , 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:

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, created by historian Pierre Rosanvallon, to publish reviews of books dealing with popular music, was started in November 2013.[34]

External links

Notes and 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. http://www.persee.fr/collection/vibra Vibrations
  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, ; Sheila Whiteley et Jedediah Sklower (2014), Countercultures and Popular Music, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, .
  6. http://journals.openedition.org/volumejournals.openedition.org/volume/5315 Programme
  7. https://colloquehh.hypotheses.org/126 Programme.
  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. http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-temps-des-medias-2013-2-page-203.htm this review
  11. http://www.iaspm.net/volume/ Popular Music and Politics
  12. http://www.consulfrance-toronto.org/spip.php?article2638 the presentation of the conference
  13. http://www.irma.asso.fr/Peut-on-parler-de-musique-noire?xtor=EPR-43 Presentation
  14. http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/enseignement/actualites.html 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. Web site: POP MUSIC - POP MUSÉE - Un nouveau défi patrimonial . Cité de la musique . 2012-07-31.
    download the programme.
  17. The conferences "La scène punk en France", "watching music.
  18. http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/en/event/a-century-of-hip-hop this conference on hip-hop
  19. http://www.ciph.org/activites.php?rub=agenda&date=20131126 this series of conferences
  20. http://fgo-barbara.fr/853 this conference
  21. http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/FAME2014 Three debates
  22. http://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2014/03/13/fame-la-musique-plein-champ_986739 Article
  23. Web site: Partenaires . Humanist Records Festival #3 . 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. http://www.greatblackmusic.fr/ 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. http://www.irma.asso.fr/Emmanuel-Parent CV Emmanuel Parent
  30. http://www.ades.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article673 here
  31. Actes Sud's website
  32. http://www.lemouv.fr/diffusion-le-rock-peut-il-resonner-au-musee show on rock museums
  33. Cf. this interview of G. Guibert and this one of J. Sklower.
  34. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Le-bruissement-de-la-raison.html "Le bruissement de la raison"

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