It was created a year earlier by Gérôme Guibert, Marie-Pierre Bonniol, and Samuel Étienne, and opted for its current name in 2009.

publishes a "varia" section for articles not related to the main topic, plus editorials, letters, and book reviews.

The journal is a frequent partner of the French-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

and the Éditions Mélanie Seteun were in charge of the electronic publication of the first French academic journal dedicated to popular music Vibrations.

Musiques, médias, société, created by Antoine Hennion, Jean-Rémy Julien and Jean-Claude Klein in the mid-1980s, on the French academic portal Persée.

[52] The "Great Black Music"[53] exhibit at the Cité de la Musique[54] in Paris was co-curated by journalist Marc Benaïche and ethnomusicologist Emmanuel Parent.

editors were offered sequences on François Saltiel's show on Le Mouv'.,[60] and the Radio Télévision Suisse dedicated two issues of "Histoire Vivante" to Volume!

[61] A partnership with the website La vie des idées [fr], created by historian Pierre Rosanvallon, to publish reviews of books dealing with popular music, was started in November 2013.