Toen mijn vroegere scriptiebegeleider Evert Bisschop Boele mij vroeg of ik nieuwsgierig zou zijn naar een onderzoeksproject over Sacred Harp (letterlijk “Heilige Harp”), een soort religieuze koormuziek, dacht ik eerst aan vrome kloosterzangen en brave koorknapen. Een opname van een internationaal zangevenement …

Purpose This paper sets out to compare different methodologies for measuring the value(s) of live popular music and to explore the different motivations amongst a range of organisations engaged in that work. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse how the values of live music are measured, who …

Over the past decades, different theoretical perspectives have been developed that help to understand the social context in which live music is produced and consumed. Theories from the fields of sociology, cultural studies and popular music studies have enhanced our knowledge of (live) music industries …

This chapter examines how the Berlin neighborhood of eastern Kreuzberg attained its mythical image as a youth culture neighborhood. It combines theories of myth-making and canonization with the concept of preference construction, thereby developing new tools to assess how certain ideas and images (e.g. …

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

This research thesis compares different institutional (professional) ways of dealing with objects of heritage related to popular music and musicians, and to reflect on them in relation to non institutional collecting and presenting practices, such as those of fan communities. The main question of …

PhD-presentation for the PhD-group of Popular Music Studies.

Livemuziek aan het ziekenhuisbed kan het herstel van patiënten positief beïnvloeden. Ook de musici zelf en ziekenhuismedewerkers kunnen er baat bij hebben, zo blijkt uit eerste resultaten van een onderzoek in Groningen.

Presentatie over leren door samenspelen op symposium over popmuziekeducatie tijdens Echt Erik Festival, Groningen, NL

This is the closing chapter of the volume on the popular music studies in The Netherlands and Belgium (The Low Countries), which is part of the IASPM-book series Made in... . This chapter focuses on the influence of Dutch and Belgian popular music across the world. Filled with sometimes surprising examples …