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  1. How Professional Songwriters and Artists Collaborate to Create Popular Music Hits

    Article • Popular Music & Society, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  2. Songwriting Camps: A Look at Collaboration in the Music Industry

    Article • Creative Industries Journal, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  3. Analysing the heaviness of the song 'To the Hellfire' by popular deathcore band Lorna Shore

    Article • Metal Music Studies, June 2023, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  4. Perspectives on Mixing Metal Music

    Article • El oído pensante, February 2023, Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  5. Dissonance in metal music: Musical and sociocultural reasons for metal’s appreciation of dissonance

    Article • Metal Music Studies, September 2022, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  6. Exploring what the word "heavy" means for (metal) music producers and musicians.

    Article • Popular Music & Society, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  7. A framework of technological, performative and musical components that constitute heaviness.

    Article • Rock Music Studies, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  8. Keeper of the Seven Keys: Audio heritage in metal music production

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2022, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  9. Metal music recording and production in 1980s and 1990s Germany

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  10. Mixing approaches in metal music

    Article • Popular Music & Society, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  11. Metal music studies at the intersection of theory and practice

    Article • Metal Music Studies, September 2021, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  12. Culture-specific production and performance characteristics: An interview study with ‘Teutonic’ metal producers

    Article • Metal Music Studies, September 2021, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  13. Recording approaches in metal music

    Article • Rock Music Studies, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  14. The Politics of Rammstein’s Sound

    Article • Journal of Popular Music Studies, June 2021, University of California Press

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  15. Teutonic Metal: Effects of Place- and Mythology-based Labels on Record Production

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  16. Recording studios as museums? Record producers’ perspectives on German rock studios and accounts of their heritage practice

    Article • Popular Music, February 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  17. Gear Acquisition Syndrome among musicians

    Article • January 2021, University of Huddersfield Press

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  18. Rhythm and booze: contesting leisure mobilities on the Transpennine Real Ale Trail

    Article • Mobilities, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  19. From Bach to Helloween: ‘Teutonic’ stereotypes in the history of popular music and heavy metal

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2020, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  20. The formation of the West German power metal scene and the question of a ‘Teutonic’ sound

    Article • Metal Music Studies, June 2019, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  21. Distortion and Rock Guitar Harmony

    Article • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, April 2019, University of California Press

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  22. Old sounds with new technologies? Examining the creative potential of guitar ‘profiling’ technology and the future of metal music from producers’ perspectives

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2019, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  23. The The skillset of professional studio musicians in the German popular music recording industry

    Article • Etnomusikologian vuosikirja, December 2018, Etnomusikologian vuosikirja

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  24. The Work Realities of Professional Studio Musicians in the German Popular Music Recording Industry: Careers, Practices and Economic Situations

    Article • IASPM Journal, December 2018, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  25. Guitar profiling technology in metal music production: Public reception, capability, consequences and perspectives

    Article • Metal Music Studies, September 2018, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  26. Heaviness and the electric guitar: Considering the interaction between distortion and harmonic structures

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2018, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  27. Virtuoses Gitarrenspiel im Rock und Metal. Zum Einfluss von Verzerrung auf das »Shredding«

    Article • December 2017, Transcript Verlag

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  28. Music studio operators from Germany’s “Ruhrpott”: Role, services and resources

    Article • Etnomusikologian vuosikirja, December 2017, Etnomusikologian vuosikirja

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  29. Shredding, tapping and sweeping: Effects of guitar distortion on playability and expressiveness in rock and metal solos

    Article • Metal Music Studies, June 2017, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  30. Historical development, sound aesthetics and production techniques of the distorted electric guitar in metal music

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2017, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  31. ‘Gear Acquisition Syndrome’ – A Survey of Electric Guitar Players

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst

  32. Remixing dub reggae in the music classroom: A practice-based case study on the educational value of music production for listening skills and stylistic analysis

    Article • Journal of Music Technology and Education, December 2016, Intellect

    Dr Jan-Peter Herbst