François Ribac

Books, texts, blogs

Books

in English

Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene – Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation – edited with Nicolas Donin et Isabelle Moindrot (Routledge, UK 2025)

to be published in autumn 2026

How to Naturalize Nature: Debussy’s Gamelans ( Routledge, UK)

in French

Arts de la scène et musique dans l’Anthropocène, Paris (Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2024)

La Fabrique de la programmation culturelle–with Catherine Dutheil-Pessin (La Dispute, Paris, 2017)

Les stars de rock au cinéma – with Giulia Conte (Armand Colin, Paris 2011)

L’avaleur de rock (La Dispute, Paris 2004)

As a publisher, François published A Sociology of Popular Music: Simon Frithin french. (Petite collection du Labex Arts H2H/Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2018)

Texts

in English

Towards Another Musical Ecology In Bellona Magazine September 23
https://bellonamag.com/towards-another-musical-ecology. (2023)

(with Paul Harkins)
Popular Music and the Anthropocene.
In Popular Music 39, n^o 1 (2020)

Narratives of the Anthropocene. How can the (performing) arts contribute to the socio- ecological transition?
In Scene 6, n^o 1 (2019)

Is DIY a Punk Invention? In Routledge. Rethinking Music Through Science and Technology Studies (Hennion A. & Levaux C.) (2021)

Cinema as Social Knowledge. The case of The Beatles in the Studio

In The Oxford Handbook of Sound & Imagination. Volume I, édité par Mark Grimshaw, Mads Walther-Hansen, et Martin Knakkergaard, Oxford University Press (2019)

(with Joëlle Le Marec)
Music knowledge and science studies. Sounds, Sense, Silence
In Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances, Musical knowledge, science studies, and resonances, (2019)

Justify Madonna? Star, fans et genre
In Fan Studies, Gender Studies, la rencontre, edited by Mélanie Bourdaa and Arnaud Alessandrin, Paris : Téraèdre (2017)

From the Scientific Revolution to Rock: Toward a Sociology of Feedback
Journal of Art Record reproduction, n^o 1 (2007)

Nearly all texts about popular music, the history of sound reproduction and cinema, learning processes, the role of users in innovation, and the ways in which music and the performing arts are addressing the Anthropocene can be found here: https://cv.hal.science/francois-ribac. Most are published in French and in English.

Blogs

in French

le socio[b]log de françois ribac

BLOPEC : Blogs musicaux et prescription culturelle en Ile de France : une recherche du terrain menée par François Ribac pour le programme “Culture et territoires“