BOIVIN Rémi
Contact details
Sociologist, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Tours. I specialise in the study of cultural scenes, social and cultural boundaries in public space, and sound ethnography in urban environments.
Functions
Doctorate in Sociology (EHESS-Centre Norbert Elias)
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tours (CITERES-CoST)
Post-doctoral researcher at Mesopolhis (MMSH-AMU), member of the’Observatory of cultural audiences and practices
Lecturer at the Professionalized University Training Course in Administration of Cultural Institutions (FUP AIC), Aix-Marseille University - Faculty of Economics and Management, Arles
Academic work
From social work to families. The role and scope for action of the social field in the Démos music education scheme (2024-2026).
Postdoctoral research coordinated by Talia Bachir-Loopyut and Guillaume Lurton, with the support of the Philharmonie de Paris.
A journey between past and future. Audiences for heritage and contemporary art in Arles (2023-2024).
Postdoctoral research and coordination of a audience research for the Observatoire des publics et pratiques de la culture (dir. Sylvia Girel). With the support of the city of Arles, research report (185p., Oct 2024).
Programme Social Science Research Creation (CRESS) 2021-2023
Head of cultural projects at the Image and Sound Department (DIS) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris).
Sound in Urban Environments from a Social Sciences Perspective: Field Recording, Sonic Archives, and Sound Documentary (2024)
Leader of workshop 3 of the Winter School in Social Sciences of Karachi. Introduction to sound ethnography for master's students (IBA Karachi) and production of a sound work - with Nicolas Puig, Fanny Dujardin, Bénédicte Barillé.
Areas of research
Sociology and history of cultural scenes
Musical scenes and the imaginary city
Urban sound ecology and urban public space
Territoriality and territorial marketing
Scientific coordinator, programme manager
Coordinator of two Research-Creation residency projects as part of EHESS's Création Recherche en Sciences sociales (CRESS) programme. Coordination of a series of Arts & Science events (Master classes, conferences, round tables, seminars, sound walks, artistic performances) in Paris and Aubervilliers, oct. 2022
Coordinator of three half-days of the Jean Rouch International Festival, Ethnographic Film Committee, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Nord, « Social sciences and sound creation »Saint-Denis, May 2022
Coordinator of a museography course (MuCEM-École du Louvre): « Exposing urban cultures: sounds in the city of Marseille ». Training and practice in ethnographic research. Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), Marseilles, June 2021
Co-organiser of a research seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris): « Musicians, cultural operators and anthropologists: research, dialogue and commitment in the contemporary city »(IRMM, referent Denis Laborde), Georg Simmel Centre, 2018-2019
Productions
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals
- Rémi Boivin, «Popular music studies et enquête ethnographique: une mise à l'épreuve de la scène musicale du quartier de La Plaine à Marseille», Terrains communs: ethnomusicologie et popular music studies (eds. Marta Amico and Emmanuel Parent), Volume!, 19 : 2 | 2023. Article on line
- Rémi Boivin, «Comment le rap construit sa centralité à Marseille», Les batailles du centre de Marseille. Transformations urbaines et enjeux sociopolitiques d'un territoire disputé (ed. Camille François, Kevin Vacher and François Valegeas), Métropolitiques, 2021. Article on line
Book chapters
- Rémi Boivin, «Le quartier de La Plaine comme scène musicale et territoire des possibles. Sound-systems, intermediary venues and wild concerts in Marseille», in Loïc Riom, Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Yann Laville and Alain Müller (eds.), Wild music: legacies, sounds and figures in France and Switzerland, Éditions Mélanie Seteun [forthcoming, winter 2025].
- Rémi Boivin, «Les frontières d'une scène musicale urbaine. Proximité spatiale et distance culturelle au centre-ville de Marseille», in Emmanuel Pedler and Marion Fontaine, The test of social boundaries, collection Enquête, Éds. de l'EHESS, November 2022.
Non-academic articles
- Rémi Boivin, «What place for hip-hop in Marseille? The city between rap imagination and institutional reality», Journal Un autre monde, n°11 Urban cultures, Marseille, May 2025.
Articles in science blogs
- Rémi Boivin, «Arles and its audiences», Public(s) ISSN 2553-5722, Observatoire des publics et des pratiques de la culture, 2024. Link
- Rémi Boivin and Boris Petric, «L'écologie urbaine de la scène musicale du quartier de La Plaine, Marseille. Three questions to Rémi Boivin», Centre Norbert Elias. Le blog des chercheur-es, 2020. Link
Sound creations
- Nothing new under the sun, Pitch (extract), in progress Soundcloud
- Canal Ourcq, episode 1 of «Sons de ville», Paris, Oct. 2022 Soundcloud
- Sound walk in Trébon, #Podcast 1 Collectif Solide, Arles, April 2024 Soundcloud
List of publications on HAL
Article in a magazine
Rémi Boivin. What place for hip-hop in Marseille? Un Autre Monde/ Another Word, 2025, 11. ⟨hal-05338439⟩
Rémi Boivin. Popular music studies and ethnographic investigation: a test of the music scene in the La Plaine district of Marseille. Volume ! La revue des musiques populaires, 2022, 19 : 2, pp.103-117. ⟨10.4000/volume.10916⟩. ⟨hal-05294705⟩
Rémi Boivin. How rap music is building its centrality in Marseilles. Métropolitiques, 2021, Marseille: les batailles du centre-ville. ⟨hal-03978633⟩
Rémi Boivin. Bouziane DAOUDI & Hadj MILIANI, Beurs’ Melodies. Cent ans de chansons immigrées du blues berbère au rap beur. Volume ! La revue des musiques populaires, 2015, 12 : 1. ⟨hal-05338313⟩
Rémi Boivin. «Ethnomusika: Music, dance and commitment. Volume ! The journal of popular music, 2014, 10:2, pp.216 - 217. ⟨10.4000/volume.4091⟩. ⟨hal-05338299⟩
Science blog article
Rémi Boivin. Arles and its audiences. 2024. ⟨hal-05335504⟩
Rémi Boivin, Boris Pétric. The urban ecology of the music scene in Marseille's La Plaine district. Three questions to Rémi Boivin. 2020. ⟨hal-03948613⟩
Presentation at a conference
Rémi Boivin. A journey between past and future: the audiences of Heritage and Contemporary Art in Arles. Data-SHS Week, Clément De Belsunce, Dec 2023, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-04458342⟩
Rémi Boivin. The making of the “new Marseille” (France): telling urban and cultural transformations through sound. Comparative approaches in sound studies, CNRS, Nov 2023, Karachi, Pakistan. ⟨hal-05337324⟩
Rémi Boivin. The stages in the construction of Marseille as a cultural capital and "cool city". Internal seminar of the ANR SCAENA. Focus on the analysis of cultural scenes: media discourses, Oct 2021, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05336595⟩
Pre-publication, Working paper
Rémi Boivin. Music scene as sonic culture. Neighborhood music events in Marseille city center. 2023. ⟨hal-03979466⟩
Book chapter
Rémi Boivin. The boundaries of an urban music scene. Proximité spatiale et distance culturelle au centre-ville de Marseille. Editions de l'EHESS. L'épreuve des frontières sociales, 14, , pp.165-183, 2023, Enquête, 978-2-7132-2911-4. ⟨hal-03979380⟩
Thesis
Rémi Boivin. Listening to La Plaine. Urban ecology of a music scene in Marseille. Sociologie. Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2020. French. ⟨NNT: ⟩. ⟨tel-02592484⟩