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Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan-Peter Herbst

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Researching Music (Vorlesung)

Inhalt: This seminar offers a hands-on introduction to the breadth of research approaches and methodologies employed in popular music studies, culminating in original, student-led research projects. Our starting point will be “Heaviness in Metal Music Production” (HiMMP), a four-year project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. This project provides a unique gateway into a variety of methods and research approaches to the study of popular music, from practice-based/artistic research and autoethnography to qualitative interviews and online netnography, as well as musical analyses and quantitative approaches to music production analysis and reception studies. In this project, the researcher team wrote and recorded an original song, commissioned its production to world-leading engineers, including Grammy Award winner Andrew Scheps (e.g. Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Black Sabbath), video-recorded the creative process and interviews with the professionals, released the edited videos through professional outlets such as the magazine Sound on Sound and YouTube, and studied audience responses to the music and videos. While HiMMP provides our core case study, we will draw on complementary studies for a comprehensive introduction to popular music research methods. The seminar will be responsive to the backgrounds of the class, which allows us to cover in greater detail those methods deemed most relevant to the group’s research interests. In the seminar, we will first develop a systematic overview of methodologies and methods before engaging with original research data hands-on. This practical work will enable you to explore topics such as data preparation and analysis, technological assistance and tools, ethical considerations, and strategic decisions for designing research that makes a tangible “impact” (academic, societal, professional, artistic, economic, or other). In the latter half of the class, participants will conduct their own projects (in groups of three) on the topic and genre of their choice and learn to present their findings in the form of an academic poster. The oral exams will be held as a mini-conference, in which we share our findings. No preparation prior to the seminar is necessary, but participants may be interested in checking out some of the materials for the introductory case study (HiMMP). - Project website with an overview of the research objectives, methodology, and outcomes: www.himmp.net - Videos of producer interviews and mix documentation, as well as interviews with musicians, concert promoters, and band managers at a festival: https://www.youtube.com/@HiMMP-Research - Different audio mixes and instrument/vocal stems of the producers’ mixes: https://www.himmp.net/audio.html - The open access research monograph: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003325727 - An (open access) companion volume featuring contextualised producer interviews and documentation of the creative process: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003564089 - Additional academic and professional publications: https://www.himmp.net/publications.html

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Popular Music Studies - Researching Popular Music