Volume! The French journal of popular music studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of popular music. It proposes a multidisciplinary space for popular music research, bridging the methodological and theoretical contributions of the French academic world (musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology of culture, cultural history, etc.) and those of cultural and popular music studies. It was created in 2002 by the Éditions Mélanie Seteun, a publishing association specialized in popular music. The journal is in French with some non-translated articles in English (cf. Volume in English).

Volume! was established in 2002 under the title Copyright Volume! by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol and Samuel Étienne, and opted for its current name in 2008. Étienne (Université de la Polynésie Française) was its first editor-in-chief (2002-2008), before Guibert (University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle) took over in 2008.

It is supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2016-2017) and indexed on the Music Index, the IIMP and RILM, and is part of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (RAFT).

The Éditions Mélanie Seteun also publish the “Musique et Société” collection dedicated to popular music studies, which counts 14 books:

• a book on the politics of popular music in the 21^st century, edited by Elsa Grassy and Jedediah Sklower (2016);

• a book on the industrial production of popular music: Sound Factory, edited by Stéphane Dorin (2012).

• Technomedia, a book on the Tecktonik dance movement and online practices, by Anne Petiau (2011).

• a book edited by Denis-Constant Martin on Diam’s (2010), a popular French hip-hop singer.

• a book on Radio and its audiences (2009), by Hervé Glevarec and Michel Pinet;

• Stéréo, a comparative sociology of popuar music in France and England (2008), a Franco-British book co-edited by Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern (published in the English-speaking world by Ashgate);

• books on metal and rock’n’ roll: Hard rock, heavy metal, metal (2003) and Le monde du rock (2006), by Fabien Hein;

• a book on the sector of contemporary popular music with La Production de la Culture (2006) and one on contemporary popular music and the cultural industry (1998), by Gérôme Guibert;

• Stéphane Malfettes’ book Les Mots distordus (2000), on the relationship between popular music and literature, with;

• Bruyante Techno (1999) by Emmanuel Grynszpan, and Un maquis techno. Modes d’engagement et pratiques sociales dans la free party (2000) by Sandy Queudrus, both on techno music and the free parties movement;

• Stand Down Margaret! by Yasmine Carlet (2004), on the commitment of popular music during the Thatcher era.