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Book SynopsisOlivier Julien is Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université, France, where he teaches the history and musicology of popular music. A permanent member of the IReMus research group (Sorbonne Université/CNRS) and a member of the editorial board of Volume! La revue des musiques populaires, he is the editor of Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (2009 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music) and Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music (with Christophe Levaux, Bloomsbury, 2018).
Olivier Bourderionnet is Professor of French at the University of New Orleans, USA. He teaches courses on contemporary French literature and culture, on pop culture and the cultural industries. His book Swing Troubadour. Vian, Brassens, Gainsbourg: les Trente Glorieuses en 33 tours (2012) examines the transformation of post-WWII France through the prism of popular music and the impact of jazz on French chanson. Bourderionnet has also published numerous articles touching on a broad variety of topics such as music in the interwar period, music and film and French Hip-hop culture.
