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

Contents

• 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, GA(c)rA'me 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, HervA(c) 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, GA(c)rA'me Guibert
• Bibliography
• Index.