Journal issue

Varia

Volume !
2015/1 11:2


198 pages

Presentation

This new “varia” issue of Volume! is made of six papers proposing different while often complementary perspectives on popular music. Christophe Guibert studies the role of the Hellfest festival in representations and uses of metal culture. J. Mark Percival analyzes discourses of loudness in rock music. Hélène Garcia-Solek and Joshua Katz-Rosene reflect upon recent evolutions in South American music: the former considers sampling as a political practice in contemporary Brazil, while the latter examines the evolutions of Columbian canción social. We are also publishing two young researchers who were awarded with the IASPM-bfe award, Ifaliantsoa Ramialison and Christophe Levaux who, although focused on distinct corpuses, both deal with the reconfiguration of the divide between art and popular music.
We are also publishing a translation of Alf Björnberg’s groundbreaking 1984 paper, “On aeolian harmony in contemporary popular music”. In the “tribune” section, Bruno Lefèbvre reflexively analyses, as an anthropologist, a musicl device alloying technology and hazard which he triggered, “connected armchairs”.
Finally, this issue is concluded with numerous conference and exhibit reports and book reviews which underline the fertility and diversity of popular music studies.

Table of contents

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Representations and Social Uses of Metal Music

The Case of the Hellfest

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Stone Deaf Forever: Discourses of Loudness

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Sampling as Political Practice

Gilberto Gil’s Cultural Policy in Brazil and the Right to Culture in the Digital Age

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Discourse in Música Latinoamericana Cultural Projects from Nueva Canción to Colombian Canción Social

IASPM-French-speaking European Branch Prize

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British Identity in Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee: An English Opera

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La Monte Young vs. The Velvet: Minimalism vs. Punk, Art vs. Pop: Postmodern Constructions and Deconstructions

Document

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On Aeolian Harmony in Contemporary Popular Music

Forum

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The tribulations of a musical innovation: the example of “Connected Armchairs”

Reports

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Report of the International Conference Bruits?

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What Critique for Today's Music? For a Literary Approach of Critical Discourse: From the 1980s to Today

Report of the Study Day organized at the Université Rennes 2 on the 7th of April 2014

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Report of the First International Conference of the ACADPROG Network

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Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!

Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes

Exhibit Report

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Art in Pop at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, le Magasin

Book Reviews

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Monique Desroches, Sophie Stévance & Serge Lacasse (eds.) (2014), Quand la musique prend corps

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Christopher J. Smith, The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy

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Motti Regev, Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity

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Matthieu Saladin, Esthétique de l’improvisation libre. Expérimentation musicale et politique

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“Why is it that we can’t let go of the vinyl record?”

Richard Osborne’s Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record

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Ray Hitchins, Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

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Jim Rogers, The Death & Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age

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Gabriel Segré, Fans de… Sociologie des nouveaux cultes contemporains


Publication date: 06/15/2015

ISBN 9782913169371

This issue is available in conditional access

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