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Gérôme Guibert
Gérôme Guibert is a professor in sociology and head of the Communication and Media Department at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He has co-edited Made in France: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2018) with a chapter about the band Trust and the birth of French heavy metal, Musical Scenes and Social Class: Debating Punk and Metal (Palgrave, 2024) and also published several popular music studies books in French including the first international reader in this language, Penser les musiques populaires (Philharmonie de Paris, 2022). His research fields are live music and local popular music scenes, and he studies heavy metal music since the beginning of the century. He has published many papers in English, most of them about Hellfest. He was the convenor of the French Heavy Metal and Sciences Sociales Conference (2014) and also of the 4th ISMMS International Conference in Nantes, 2019.
Contact: Département ICM, UFR Arts & Médias, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 8 avenue de Saint Mandé, Paris 75012, France.