This issue dedicated to Jamaican music studies presents and analyses the main characteristic features of these musical forms – from riddims to sound systems – and their associated issues—from culture to slackness. The publication features nine articles and twelve book reviews written by leading world experts (including 7 Jamaican researchers).
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Jamaica Jamaica ! De Marley aux deejays”, Philharmonie de Paris, from April 4 to August 13, 2017.
Volume! (not to be confused with the other VOLUME periodical) was established in 2002 by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol and Samuel Etienne. Volume! The French journal of popular music studies is the only peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music. The journal is in French with some non-translated articles in English.

This issue was edited by Thomas Vendryes.
Texts by Christian Béthune, Giulia Bonacci, Carolyn Cooper, Brian d’Aquino, Julian Henriques & Leonardo Vidigal, Hubert Devonish & Byron Jones, Peter Manuel & Wayne Marshall, Herbie Miller & Roberto Moore, Emmanuel Parent, Jean-Christophe Sevin, Thomas Vendryes.

Softcover, published in 2017
238 pages (b/w ill.)