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The Union of Choruses

by Noémie Villacèque, 28 September

About: V. Azoulay et P. Ismard, Athènes 403. Une histoire chorale, Flammarion
Dossier
Summer Mix

by The editorial team, 19 July 2021

Books & Ideas is slowing down for the summer and will be back at the end of August. In the meantime, here is a selection...
Review
Drill, Gangs, and Social Media

by Clément Petitjean, 28 June 2021

About: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet : Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy, Princeton University Press

Articles

Interview
U.S. Hip-Hop Studies: Formation, Flow and Trajectory

by Séverin Guillard, 30 November 2020

An Interview with Murray Forman
Essay
Against the “Grain of the Voice”

by Catherine Rudent, 6 July 2020

Studying the voice in songs
Review
The Birth of Stars

by Alain Chenu, 16 January 2020

About: Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity, Princeton University Press
Interview
Hacking Through Contemporary Electronic Music

by Clément Canonne, 2 December 2019

An interview with Nicolas Collins
Dossier
Music and Politics

by The editorial team, 22 July 2019

A Summer Selection, Part 2
Interview
Taking Metal Music Seriously

by Catherine Guesde, 4 July 2019

An Interview with Deena Weinstein and Gérôme Guibert
Essay
Protest Music in the Age of Trump

by Ron Eyerman, 25 April 2019

The presidential election campaign and the unexpected election of Donald Trump was cause for immediate reaction from the...
Interview
Japanoise: Affect at the Edge of Music

by Edouard Degay Delpeuch, 29 November 2018

An Interview with David Novak
Review
Audio-power

by Loïc Bertrand, 4 October 2018

About: Juliette Volcler, Contrôle. Comment s’inventa l’art de la manipulation sonore, La Découverte
Review
Desegregating the Understanding of Music

by Gayle Murchison, 26 June 2017

About: Sara Le Menestrel, Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music, Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications, University Press of Mississippi.
Interview
Race and Counter-Cultures in the United States

by Andrew J. Diamond, 8 December 2016

An Interview with Jeff Chang
Review
The Rules of Improvisation

by Pierre Saint-Germier, 29 March 2016

About: Matthieu Saladin, Esthétique de l’improvisation libre. Expérimentation musicale et politique, Presses du réel.
Review
In Praise of Impurity

by Frédéric Sylvanise, 7 March 2016

About: Emmanuel Parent, Jazz Power: Anthropologie de la condition noire chez Ralph Ellison, CNRS Editions.
Essay
Once Upon a Time in America There was Michael Jackson

by Sylvie Laurent, 24 April 2014

Michael Jackson was a lot more than just a singer: Sylvie Laurent recounts the story of the pop star who became a “monster,”...
Review
Playing Together

by Marc Perrenoud, 3 April 2014

About: Howard S. Becker and Robert R. Faulkner, Thinking Together: An Email Exchange and All That Jazz, Annenberg Press, Les laboratoires d’Aubervilliers & Questions Théoriques (co-publishers).
Review
Total Wagner

by Karol Beffa, 5 November 2013

About: Dictionnaire encyclopédique Wagner, chief editor Timothée Picard. Actes Sud, 2010.
Essay
Rhythms of Construction

by Cristelle Terroni, 23 May 2013

An Interview with C. de Portzamparc
Review
“Life Goin’ Nowhere”

by Michael C. Behrent, 14 December 2011

About: J. Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, The New Press.
Essay
Liszt and Modernity

by Martin Guerpin, 27 December 2010

About : B. Moysan, Liszt, virtuose subversif, Symétrie.
Essay
Rebel with a Prescription: Eminem, or America on Drugs

by Sylvie Laurent, 23 October 2009

Eminem, like millions of Americans, just strolls down to his local pharmacist. Thus at a time when the country is questioning...

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