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Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the
Sociological Study of Popular Music in France
and Britain (edited by Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern)
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The term 'Popular Music' has traditionally
denoted different things in France and Britain.
In France, the very concept of 'popular' music
has been fiercely debated and contested, whereas
in Britain and more largely throughout what the
French describe as the 'Anglo-saxon' world
'popular music' has been more readily accepted
as a description of what people do as leisure or
consume as part of the music industry, and as
something that academics are legitimately entitled to study.
French researchers have for some decades been
keenly interested in reading British and
American studies of popular culture and popular
music and have often imported key concepts and
methodologies into their own work on French
music, but apart from the widespread use of
elements of 'French theory' in British and
American research, the 'Anglo-saxon' world has
remained largely ignorant of particular
traditions of the study of popular music in
France and specific theoretical debates or
organizational principles of the making and
consuming of French musics. French, British and
American research into popular music has thus
coexisted with consideerable
cross-fertilization for many years, but the
barriers of llanguage and different academic
traditions have made it hard for French and
anglophone researchers to fully appreciate the
ways in which popular music has developed in
their respective countries and the perspectives
on its study adopted by their colleagues.
This volume provides a comparative and
contrastive perspective on popular music and its study in France and the UK.
Contents: General Editor's preface; Top of the
Pops, or Gilbert and Maritie Carpentier? Ways of
doing and thinking popular music in Britain and
France, Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern;
Writing the history of popular music, Simon
Frith; Charting the history of amplified musics
in France, Gérôme Guibert and Philippe Le
Guern; Popular music policy in the UK, Martin
Cloonan; Cultural policies and
popular/contemporary/amplified musics in France,
Philippe Teillet; The UK music economy, Mike
Jones; The economics of music in France,
Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux; Mediation of popular
music in the UK, J. Mark Percival; Music and the
media in France: the sociological viewpoint,
Hervé Glevarec; Genres and the aesthetics of
popular music in the UK, Simon Warner; The issue
of musical genres in France, Fabien Hein;
Mapping British music audiences: subcultural,
everyday and mediated approaches, Dan Laughey;
Music audiences: cultural hierarchies and state
interventionism: a typically French model?,
Philippe Le Guern; Is it different for girls?
Unpacking Sheffield's 'scene', Josie Robson;
Local music scenes in France: definitions
stakes, particularities, Gérôme Guibert; Bibliography; Index.
About the Editor: Hugh Dauncey is Senior
Lecturer in French Studies at Newcastle
University, UK and associate member of the
CNRS/Paris 1 Sorbonne University Georges
Friedmann research laboratory. He teaches and
researches French and francophone popular
culture particularly music annd sport and
has edited a number of studies, such as (with S.
Caannon) Popular Music in France from Chanson to
Techno: Culture, Identity, Society (Ashgate,
2003), (with G. Hare) The Tour de France,
1903?2003: A Century of Sporting Structures,
Meanings and Values (2003) and French Popular
Culture (2003). He is currently working on a
monograph study of cycling in France as leisure
and sport and various studies of French sporting
and musical culture. In 2003 he was decorated by
the French state with the order of the Palmes
Académiques, in recognition of 'services to French Culture'.
Philippe Le Guern is Professor of Sociology of
Culture at the University of Avignon, member of
the Centre Norbert Elias research laboratory
(CNRS-EHESS-UAPV), France, and associate member
of the Georges Friedmann research laboratory
(Paris 1-CNRS). He has edited a number of
studies on popular culture including Les cultes
médiatiques. Oeuvres cultes et culture fan
(2002) and (with J. Migozzi) Production(s) du
Populaire (2004). He has worked to encourage
dialogue between French and British researchers
studying popular music through ventures such as
the special number (Vol. 25, 14142, 2007) of
the French journal Réseaux (co-edited wiith S.
Frith) available on-line at
http://reseaux.revuesonline.com, and the recent
creation of the webjournal Cultures sonores
(www.culturessonores.org). Current work covers
music and everyday life, the impact of digital
technologies on work practices in the music and
film industries and trends towards considering
popular music as 'heritage'. He is principal
investigator in a French national research
council project on the effects of digital
technologies on work in cultural industries.
Ashgate:
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=2906&sort=pubdate&lang=cy-gb&forthcoming=1&title_id=10249&edition_id=13118
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Dr Dan Laughey
School of Cultural Studies, Broadcasting Place
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds, UK. LS2 9JN.
Laughey's Media Theory Blog: http://danlaughey.com/
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