In France, music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced several prominent romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The oldest playable musical recordings were made in France using the earlist known sound recording device in the world, the phonautograph, which was patented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857. France is also the 5th largest market by value in the world, and its music industry has produced many internationally renowned artists, especially in the nouvelle chanson and electronic music.
Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology (1991) ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music.
Vladimir Cosma is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.
French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the other francophone areas of the world. The target audience is the francophone market, which is considerably smaller than and largely independent from the mainstream anglophone market.
Patrick Moutal is a French sitarist and musicologist. He has been teaching north Indian classical music at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) since 1984.
Benoît Lacroix was a Quebec theologian, philosopher, Dominican priest, professor in medieval studies and historian of the Medieval period, and author of almost 50 works and a great number of articles.
The Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres is a national association that represents music librarians across Canada. Members work in organizations that support musical activities in Canada, including libraries, archives, conservatories, and universities. The organization aims to support all aspects of music librarianship in Canada, including research and scholarship, and to cooperate with other national and international organizations concerned with music.
Franck Lepage is one of the founders of Workers' co-operative of popular education 'Le Pavé' in France. Franck was an activist of popular education, until 2000 director of programs at the French Federation of Youth and Culture Centers and associate research fellow at the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education..
Achille Millien was a French poet and folklorist.
Jérémie K. Dagnini is a French academic, specializing in Jamaican popular music.
Makis Solomos is a Franco-Greek musicologist who specializes in contemporary music, particularly the work of Iannis Xenakis. He is also one of the specialists in Theodor W. Adorno's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes", which aimed to broaden the field of musicology.
Jacques Viret is a contemporary French musicologist of Swiss origin.
Guillaume de Van real name William Carrolle Devan, was a French musicologist and choral conductor of American origin. A student at Princeton University, he then traveled to Rome to train in Gregorian chant. In the early 1930s, he became a choir conductor, conducting the Armenian choir in Paris. In 1935, in collaboration with the priest Ducaud-Bourget, he founded the vocal ensemble Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean des Matines. With this ensemble he interpreted and recorded for the first time several secular and religious vocal works of the Middle Ages. Among these works, he recorded the world premiere of Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut in 1936 of which he made one of the first complete transcriptions published by the Corpus mensurabilis musicae in 1950. In 1942 he was appointed by the Vichy regime curator of the newly created département de la musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, until 1944. In this capacity he collaborated with the Nazi musicologists of the Sonderstab Musik. After the Liberation of France, he was suspended from his duties on 24 August 1944.
Marie Bobillier, real name Antoinette Christine Marie Bobillier was a French musicologist, music critic, writing under her pseudonym Michel Brenet.
Vincenzo Caporaletti is an Italian musicologist known for devising audiotactile formativity theory.
The Éditions Mélanie Seteun are a publishing association dedicated to "taking popular music seriously, especially within the French-speaking world. They publish Volume! the French Journal of Popular Music Studies, book collections, and participate in several activities promoting their field of study in France.
Denis-Constant Martin is a French scholar.
Márta Grabócz is a Franco-Hungarian musicologist, professor at the University of Strasbourg and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France...
Claudie Marcel-Dubois was a French ethnomusicologist and pianist. From 1937 until her retirement in 1981, she worked at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP) in Paris. She was president of the Société d'ethnologie française from 1978 to 1987. She taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
