Jonas Menze Author

Jan-Peter Herbst is Senior Lecturer in Music Production at the University of Huddersfield (UK) where he is Director of the Research Centre for Music, Culture and Identity (CMCI). His primary research area is popular music culture, in particular rock music and the electric guitar, on which he has published widely. Currently, he is undertaking a funded three-year project that explores how heaviness is created and controlled in metal music production. Herbsts editorial roles include IASPM Journal and Metal Music Studies, and he currently edits the Cambridge Companion to Metal Music and the Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. Jonas Menze is Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Research on Musical Ability (IBFM) at Paderborn University (Germany) and a chairperson of the German Society for Popular Music Studies (GfPM). In 2017 he completed a Ph.D. in Musicology at Salzburg University (Austria) with a thesis on framework conditions and production processes of German-language musicals, for which he had received a DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW). His research interests include empirical musicology, popular musical theatre and popular music studies, audience research, the development of musical expertise as well as lifelong learning in music.