Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain

298 Pages·2011·2.576 MB·English

by  Hugh Dauncey, Philippe Le Guern

Stereo: Comparative Perspectives
on the Sociological Study
of Popular Music in France
and Britain
Edited by
Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern
Stereo: Comparative perSpeCtiveS
on the SoCiologiCal Study
of popular muSiC in franCe
and Britain
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Stereo: Comparative perspectives
on the Sociological Study
of popular music in france
and Britain
Edited by
hugh daunCey
Newcastle University, UK
philippe le guern
University of Avignon and CNRS-EHESS-UAPV, France
© hugh dauncey, philippe le guern and the contributors 2011
all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Stereo : comparative perspectives on the sociological study of popular music in france
and Britain. – (Ashgate popular and folk music series)
1. popular music – france – analysis, appreciation.
2. popular music – great Britain – analysis, appreciation.
3. popular music – research – Cross-cultural studies.
i. Series ii. dauncey, hugh, 1961– iii. le guern, philippe.
306.4’8424’072’041–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stereo : comparative perspectives on the sociological study of popular music in france
and Britain / [edited by] hugh dauncey and philippe le guern.
p. cm.—(Ashgate popular and folk music series)
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0568-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. popular music—Social aspects—france. 2. popular music—Social aspects—great
Britain. i. dauncey, hugh, 1961- ii. le guern, philippe.
ml3918.p67S74 2010
306.4’84240941—dc22
2010025099
ISBN 9781409405689 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409419501 (ebk)II
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
General Editor’s Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Top of the Pops, or gilbert and maritie Carpentier? Ways of doing
and Thinking Popular Music in Britain and France 1
Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern
2 Writing the history of popular music 11
Simon Frith
3 Charting the History of Amplified Musics in France 23
Gérôme Guibert and Philippe Le Guern
4 popular music policy in the uK 43
Martin Cloonan
5 Cultural Policies and Popular/Contemporary/Amplified Musics
in france 59
Philippe Teillet
6 the uK music economy 75
Mike Jones
7 the economics of music in france 91
Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux
8 mediation of popular music in the uK 105
J. Mark Percival
9 music and the media in france: the Sociological viewpoint 119
Hervé Glevarec
10 genres and the aesthetics of popular music in the uK 137
Simon Warner
vi STEREo
11 the issue of musical genres in france 153
Fabien Hein
12 mapping British music audiences: Subcultural, everyday and
mediated approaches 173
Dan Laughey
13 music audiences, Cultural hierarchies and State interventionism:
a typically french model? 187
Philippe Le Guern
14 Is it Different for Girls? Unpacking Sheffield’s ‘Scene’ 201
Josie Robson
15 Local Music Scenes in France: Definitions, Stakes, Particularities 223
Gérôme Guibert
Bibliography 239
Index 271
list of figures
9.1 the disjunction of the radio target and format 125
9.2 from the monopoly of functions to the diversity of contacts 131
15.1 the two economic branches of the music industry 226
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list of Contributors
Martin Cloonan is professor of popular music politics and Convener of
postgraduate Study in the department of music at the university of glasgow.
his research interests lie in the politics of popular music with particular reference
to policy issues and questions of freedom of expression. His most recent work
is a co-authored book with Bruce Johnson (University of Turku) Dark Side of
The Tune: Popular Music and Violence (Ashgate, 2008). Previous works have
included Popular Music and the State in the UK (Ashgate, 2007) and Policing
Pop (co-edited with Reebee Garofalo, Temple University Press, 2003). Martin
is also chair of freemuse, the World forum on music and Censorship (www.
freemuse.org).
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 (Frank Cass,
2003) and French Popular Culture (Arnold, 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’.
Simon Frith is tovey professor of music at the university of edinburgh. he trained
as a sociologist and was previously professor of english Studies at Strathclyde
university and professor of film and media at the university of Stirling. his
academic career was paralleled by a career as a rock critic, writing for various
magazines in the UK and USA before becoming rock critic of the London Sunday
Times and a columnist for the New York Village Voice. a collection of his academic
articles was recently published as Taking Popular Music Seriously (ashgate,
2007). He is chair of the judges of the Mercury Music Prize.
Hervé Glevarec is a researcher at the CNRS research laboratory ‘Communication
et politique’. his research interests focus principally on the sociology of cultural
and media practices in the context of the cultural industries. In particular he looks at
the media practices of children and adolescents. He also works on radio audiences
in france, having studied, particularly, radio production at the french national