Biography

Sociologist and musicologist, Cécile Prévost-Thomas is a lecturer in the cultural mediation department of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and a member of CERLIS (UMR 8070). She is co-responsible for the Master in Music Mediation which she founded in 2014 with Hyacinthe Ravet (Sorbonne University). Her research focuses, on the one hand, on understanding the worlds of contemporary French-speaking song (creation, distribution, reception) and, on the other hand, on the aesthetic, sociological, political, institutional and professional issues of the mediation of music. In September 2022, she will defend her HDR entitled “Thinking the song and the mediation of music as a sociologist”.