Vita

Monika E. Schoop is associate professor of musicology (esp. popular music studies) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Her research interests include music and memory, music and politics, music industries and (digital) technologies, gender studies, and music in the Philippines. She currently coordinates the research project “Musical and Sonic Remembrance in the Post-Witness Era,” funded by the ministry of Lower Saxony. Together with Prof. Dr. Federico Spinetti, she previously led the project "Sounding Memories: Nazi Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance in Contemporary German Music," funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

  • Since 10/2022: Associate Professor of Musicology (especially Popular Music Studies) at the Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) of Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2019-2022: Assistant Professor of Musicology (especially Popular Music Studies) at the Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) of Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2015: PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Hildesheim
  • 2007: Master of Arts in Musicology, Philosophy and English Studies, University of Cologne

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Popular Music (Re)Writes History: Popular Music and Historical Narratives
    Monika Schoop (Editor) , 2025 Sheffield , 183 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  2. Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders: Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
    Monika Schoop (Editor) , Federico Spinetti (Editor) , Ana Hofman (Editor) , 2021

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  3. Independent Music and Digital Technology in the Philippines
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 2017 London, New York. , 245 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

Journal contributions

  1. Introduction to the special issue:: Popular music (re)writes history: Popular music and historical narratives
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 03.05.2025 , in: Popular Music History, 16, 1-2 , p. 5-15 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Back in the new 1970s?: How a song counters historical revisionism and authoritarian nostalgia for the Philippine dictatorship
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 05.03.2025 , in: Popular Music History, 16, 1-2 , p. 160-183 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. #AllRoadsLeadtoRoute196: Remembering a Home of Metro Manila’s Music Scene in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Monika Schoop (Author) , Renato Aguila (Author) , 14.12.2023 , in: IASPM Journal, 13, 3 , p. 89-113 , 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Ein musikalisches Denkmal gegen das Vergessen: Musikwissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung am Beispiel von Roger Moreno Rathgebs Requiem für Auschwitz
    Monika Schoop (Author) , Martin Ringsmut (Author) , 14.12.2022 , in: Musikforschung, 75, 4 , p. 384-409 , 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. #GenderMachtPop. Machtverhältnisse und Geschlecht in der populären Musik
    Monika Schoop (Author) , Melanie Ptatscheck (Author) , 21.10.2022 , in: Samples, 20 , 34 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Musik und Zeug*innenschaft – Erinnern an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus in der „Post-Witness Era“
    Monika Schoop (Author) , Thomas Sebastian Köhn (Author) , Martin Ringsmut (Author) , 01.01.2024 Hildesheim , p. 51-86 , 36 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Not Just Riot Grrrls! Punk Rock Feminism in the Philippines
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 23.09.2021 Bristol , p. 91-107 , 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Musikalische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus. Eine Autoethnographie des Erinnerungsprojektes Sound in the Silence im ehemaligen Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 01.01.2021 Baden-Baden , p. 253-286 , 34 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  4. Standing up against Discrimination and Exclusion: An Interview with Kutlu Yurtseven (Microphone Mafia)
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 23.09.2020 New York/London , p. 207-215 , 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. A Global Phenomenon with a Unique Pinoy Twist - Das Vinyl Revival in Metro Manila
    Monika Schoop (Author) , 01.01.2017 Münster, Berlin , p. 249 - 264 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

Activities

  1. Singing Up Against Misogyny and Colonial Legacies: Punk Feminism in the Philippines
    Monika Schoop (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  2. Klingende Erinnerungen: Überlegungen zu einer musikethnologischen Erinnerungsforschung
    Monika Schoop (presenter) , Sidney König (presenter) , Martin Ringsmut (presenter) , Thomas Köhn (presenter)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  3. Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia
    Monika Schoop (presenter)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  4. Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia
    Monika Schoop (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

Press / Media

  1. Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Musikalisches Gedenken: Wie klingt Erinnerungskultur?
    1 Media contribution

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  2. Wenn Hologramme vom Holocaust berichten
    1 Media contribution

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  3. Podcast: Memory Lab: Neue Formen der Erinnerungsarbeit
    1 Media contribution

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Prizes

Courses