ABSTRACT
French researchers are beginning to talk about 'music scenes' in so doing; they are following research from Anglophone countries which began in the 1990s. It is interesting to note that the foundations of research in English-speaking countries came in part from concepts elaborated by French researchers, foremost among who is Henri Lefebvre. However, here just as in England or America, the term 'music scene' was already used by journalists before being adopted by academics. In sociology, and more widely in intellectual society, amplified music, seen without historical depth, was for a long time considered without truly taking into account regional particularities surrounding its production. French State intervention inherited from its Jacobin tradition is a well known specificity. As early as the Third French Republic, alongside education, the town band movement allowed a certain central idea of what popular music should be to spread through France.
