Table of Contents

1: Top of the Pops, or Gilbert and Maritie Carpentier? Ways of Doing and Thinking Popular Music in Britain and France; 2: Writing the History of Popular Music; 3: Charting the History of Amplified Musics in France; 4: Popular Music Policy in the UK; 5: Cultural Policies and Popular/Contemporary/Amplified Musics in France; 6: The UK Music Economy; 7: The Economics of Music in France; 8: Mediation of Popular Music in the UK; 9: Music and the Media in France: The Sociological Viewpoint; 10: Genres and the Aesthetics of Popular Music in the UK; 11: The Issue of Musical Genres in France; 12: Mapping British Music Audiences: Subcultural, Everyday and Mediated Approaches; 13: Music Audiences, Cultural Hierarchies and State Interventionism: A Typically French Model?; 14: Is it Different for Girls? Unpacking Sheffield's 'Scene'; 15: Local Music Scenes in France: Definitions, Stakes, Particularities

About the Author

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 and sport - and has edited a number of studies, such as (with S. Cannon) 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 Academiques, 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 mediatiques. 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, 141-42, 2007) of the French journal Reseaux (co-edited with 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. Hugh Dauncey, Philippe Le Guern, Gerome Guibert, Martin Cloonan, Philippe Teillet, Mike Jones, Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux, J. Mark Percival, Herve Glevarec, Simon Warner, Fabien Hein, Dan Laughey, Josie Robson.

Reviews

'Stereo sets up a fascinating dialogue between French and British researchers, and between scholarly approaches to popular music on both sides of the Channel. An extremely accessible and well-referenced survey of the last twenty years’ work in Popular Music Studies, this book is to be recommended to academics and students with an interest in popular music, sociology, Anglo-French cultural studies and contemporary history.' Barbara Lebrun, University of Manchester, UK ’... one [is left] with a greater understanding of the various functions and social roles popular music has in both countries... a little work on the reader’s behalf will certainly enable genuine and valuable comparisons between British and French approaches to popular music research. This could not only have practical implications for changes to music’s economy and government intervention, but also for understanding the social mechanics that shape different popular music cultures.’ Popular Music 'Dauncey and Le Guern’s volume displays a great variety of methods and approaches used in British and French academic research and will undoubtedly prove highly valuable to anyone interested in the sociological approach of popular music today regardless of their geographical focus. Given the overwhelming pace of change in the musical practices of audiences, of professional and amateur musicians, and the transformations of musical industries, this book explores and refines a number of key directions that will no doubt remain at the heart of future research in popular music studies.' Contemporary French Civilization '... the volume presents a well referenced survey of approaches to the discipline and constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and postgraduate and undergraduate students of (comparative) cultural studies, popular music studies, and sociology in Britain and France.' French Studies