Éditions Mélanie Seteun
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| Status | Association |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Founder | Samuel Étienne & Gérôme Guibert |
| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | Guichen |
| Distribution | Les presses du réel |
| Publication types | Volume!, "Musique et Société" collection |
| Nonfiction topics | popular music studies publications & events |
| Owner | Association Mélanie Seteun |
| Official 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.
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
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]