Sangheon Lee is a South Korean music historian and musicologist living and working in France, specializing in the history of 20C Anglo-American rock music, as well as popular music theory and analysis. He is also an experienced rock musician and guitarist. He received a PhD in musicology from Gustave Eiffel University, France, in 2022, with a thesis on the early American hardcore punk and its musical/historical context dating back to Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll¬—as an extension of his M.A. thesis (University Paris 8, 2015)—, based on the notions of urgency and nihilism, especially the musical embodiment of these two notions. Before moving to France in 2012, he studied French language and literature (B.A. from Korea University, 2004); Richard Wagner’s prose works and the reactions from Fétis, Baudelaire and Nietzsche (M.A from Korea National University of Arts, 2012); and, during this period, he left the academic field for five years to devote himself to his band, Deafening Street, as a lyricist/composer, guitarist, singer, mixing engineer, and producer. Since 2022, he has been working as a teaching and research associate (ATER) at Gustave Eiffel University, France. Recently, his research is being extended to the history and musical analysis of Russian rock, focusing on the connection between 1980’s post-punk and 2020’s “cold wave”. He is currently Membership Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and responsible for the Punk Scholars Network (PSN) South Korean branch.Sangheon Lee, docteur en musicologie, est actuellement ATER à l’Université Gustave Eiffel, et il est aussi musicien de rock et guitariste expérimenté. Il a soutenu une thèse de doctorat en 2022, intitulée « Urgence et nihilisme : l’émergence du punk hardcore américain », qui consiste principalement en l’étude de l’incarnation musicale de ces deux notions. Avant son doctorat, il a étudié la langue et la littérature françaises (licence, Korea University, 2004), et a obtenu deux masters en musicologie, l’un en Corée, portant sur Richard Wagner (Korea National University of Arts, 2012), et l’autre en France, sur le punk hardcore américain (Université Paris 8, 2015). Il est actuellement membre du comité exécutif de l’IASPM international (membership secretary) et responsable de la branche sud-coréenne du Punk Scholars Network.