Musical Scenes and Social Class

Romain Garbaye is Professor of British Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He is the author of three books, including Getting Into Local Power, the Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005, which won the prize for Best Book on Urban Politics of the American Political Association (APSA) in 2006. He has also co-edited 7 volumes or journal issues, including The Politics of Ethnic Diversity in the British Isles (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, with Pauline Schnapper) and Progressive Cities East and West (Springer, Singapore, with Mike Douglass and K.C. Ho).

Gérôme Guibert is Professor of Sociology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France, and currently serves as the director of its Institute for Communication and the Media (ICM) and is a member of the French Laboratory of Excellence ICCA (Cultural industries and artistic creation). He is the co-author of several books on the sociology of culture and popular music. He is one the founding members and member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Volume! and a member of the editorial board of the journal Metal Music Studies.

1.Romain Garbaye and Gérôme Guibert, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.- Introduction : social class, punk and metalClass domination and class agency.- 2.Andy Brown, independent researcher : Resistance Through Music.-  Exploring the role of class fraction appropriations and alliances in the subcultural formation of heavy metal, classic, post and present.- _3 .Deirdre Gilfedder, Universite Paris-Dauphine : The early punk scene in Brisbane, Australia as  site of social and postcolonial.- 4. Jeremy Tranmer, Université de Lorraine:  "Victory to the Miners!" Punk and the Miners' Strike of 1984/85.- Subcultures, sub-genres and social class.- 5.Timothy Heron, Université de Strasbourg :  '"Rotting in the suburbs" ? Voicing Working-Class Deprivation in 1970s Northern Ireland Punk Songs.- 6.Guillaume Clément, Université de Rennes : Working-class and middle-class in the age of Brexit: social commentary by contemporary post-punk bands.- 7. Eric Smialek, Huddersfield University : Mapping Social-Class Divisions within Metal: Global Material Conditions, Disciplinary Priorities, Subgeneric Trends, and Stylistic Analyses.- Evolving audiences : ageing, gentrification, feminization?.- 8. Pierig Humeau, Universite de Limoges : « We're dominated, So What" ? We Don't Give a F**k : Punk Stylistic Spaces, Social Classes and Political-artistic Ageing" inFrance.- 9.Rosemary Lucy Hill, Huddersfield University, Molly Megson, University of Hull, and David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds : Sexual Violence in the Pit.- 10. Corentin Charbonnier, Universite de Tours : Gentrifying metal ? The Evolving Gender and Social Class characteristics of  Metal Festival Audiences : A Statistical Study of the HellfestFestival (France).-  11.Charle ne Be nard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: Who listens to « metal for girls » ? Metal, orchestra and female voices: measuring the reception of symphonic metal.