Projects

Dissertation Project: „Bang Your Head!“ Heavy Metal Music and Dance in Germany (Working Title)

My dissertation project focuses on dance practices in contemporary heavy metal. It aims to analyze and understand these practices in their complexity, which in turn means to discern which different elements are involved (e.g. actors, actants, discourses etc.) and how they relate to each other. Special attention is paid to the relation between music and bodily movement. My empirical material consists of participant observations, interviews as well as different representations of dance and Adele Clarke’s Situational Analysis provides my method(olog)ical framework. We have gathered further information on the overall project here.

Miscellaneous

(in cooperation with Christian Rhein) Workshop Situationsanalyse – Neue Erkenntnisse und neue Fragen (Situational Analysis – New Insights and New Questions) at the 6th Summer Institute of the Gesellschaft für Musikwirtschafts- und Musikkulturforschung, October 2021, Porto

(in cooperation with Steffen Just, Sean Prieske, Melanie Ptatscheck and Svenja Reiner) Co-Organization of the 11. Early Career Workshop of the German Society for Popular Music Studies, February 2021, University of Music and Dance Cologne/online

(in cooperation with Chris Kattenbeck, Ella O’Brien-Coker and Svenja Reiner) Co-Organization and Hosting of the Summer School Populäres Wissen?! Pop*Musikforschung und Wissenschaftskommunikation (Popular Knowledge?! Pop*Music Research and Science Communication), September 2019, University of Music and Dance Cologne

(in cooperation with Chris Kattenbeck, Svenja Reiner and Max Ruhmann) Co-Organization and Hosting of the Summer School Transdisziplinäre Pop*Musikforschung (Transdisciplinary Pop*Music Research), September 2018, University of Music and Dance Cologne

(in cooperation with Chris Kattenbeck, Svenja Reiner and Max Ruhmann) Co-Organization and Hosting of the Summer School Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Pop*Musik (Perspectives on the Cultural Study of Pop*Music), September 2017, University of Music and Dance Cologne