Volume!
Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies (subtitled in French: La revue des musiques populaires) is a biannual (May and November) peer-reviewed academic journal "dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music". It is published by the Éditions Mélanie Seteun, a publishing association specialized since 1998 in the cultural sociology of popular music. Volume! was established in 2002 under the title Copyright Volume! by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol, and Samuel Étienne, and obtained its current name in 2009. Étienne (Université de la Polynésie Française) was its first editor-in-chief (2002–2008), before Stéphane Dorin (2009), Gérôme Guibert (2010-2017) and Emmanuel Parent (2017-2022) took over. The journal publishes special issues on various topics in popular music studies, new musicology, ethnomusicology,: "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, etc. Recent topics include music videos (2018, n° 14–2), Jamaican Music (2017, n° 13–2), French punk scenes (2016, N° 13–1), The Beatles (2016, n° 12–2), French chanson and immigration (2015, n°12-1), "nostalgia" (2015, n°11-1), music and dance (2014, n°10-2), "listening" (2013, n°10-1), Black music (2011, n°8-1) gender and race issues in hip hop (2011, n°8-2), "metal studies", "countercultures" (2012, n°9-1 & 9–2), and cover versions (2010, n°7-1 & 7–2), Volume! publishes a "varia" section for articles not related to the main topic, plus editorials, letters, and book reviews. Since November 2011, Volume ! is included in the French academic journals portal fr and since December 2011 in the Belgian portal, Cairn.info. All issues are available online on Openedition.org (formerly Revues.