Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (Lille, France), Organization Committee: Martine Aubry, Lille 3, IRHIS; Arnaud Baubérot, Paris Est-Créteil, CRHEC; Laurent Brassart / Florence Tamagne / Mélanie Traversier, Lille 3, IRHIS

Time:13.-15.06.2013
Venue: Lille, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3
Deadline: 15.09.2012

In Anglo-American countries, the history of rock music has been institutionalized since the 1970s, notably in musicology and cultural studies departments. In France, on the contrary, it has been considered, until recently, as a rather minor subject, abandoned to journalists and amateurs. Although French musicologists, sociologists and specialists of British and American literatures and civilizations did produce a large amount of work on popular music, French historians encountered rock and roll mostly by chance, while working on the history of youth or the history of the record industry. Bertrand Lemonnier’s pioneering work (L’Angleterre des Beatles. Une histoire culturelle des années soixante, Seuil, 1995) remained for a long time an exception. Things are beginning to change: Thesis and master’s papers on the history of rock music are … read the rest of the entry (and Source)