Michael Ahlers
Prof. Dr.

- Music education - Popular Music Studies, Empirical music pedagogy
Research areas
- 2025
- Published
Musikkulturen, Nachhaltigkeit und Klimabildung
Zaddach, W.-G. & Ahlers, M., 22.10.2025, Handbuch Klimabildung. Höttecke, D., Heinicke, S., Martens, H., Nehring, A. & Rabe, T. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Nature, p. 265-283Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › peer-review
- Published
From Sheet to Beat: Creativity and Composition as Useful Content for (Digital) Lifelong Learning
Ahner, P., Ahlers, M., Aigner, W., Chatelain, S., Desmurs, S., Hug, D., Mall, P. & Spieker, B., 23.09.2025, Liberty – Equity – Creativity: Innovating and Inventing Music in the Classroom. Buchborn, T., Gall, M., Henessy, S. & Stumpfögger, M. (eds.). Helbling Verlag, p. 189-206Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- Published
Musikwirtschaft: "Chest always to puffed guy"
Ahlers, M., 22.09.2025, Popmusikforschung. Rudolph, P., Suer, D. & Hornberger, B. (eds.). UTB, p. 87-104Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
Negotiating Standards and Songwriting Myths in the Age of Platformisation: Sessions, Camps, and Their Functional Rules and (Media) Formats
Wernicke, C. & Ahlers, M., 16.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Popular Music. 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Classroom music in Germany as praxis and object: Innovative approaches and early findings
Verbücheln, E.-M. & Ahlers, M., 29.05.2025, Innovative Teaching and Classroom Processes: Research Perspectives from Germany and China. Ehmke, T. & Chi-Kin Lee, J. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 117-129 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Popular Music Songwriting as Cultural, Creative and Economic Practice: Songwriting von populärer Musik als kulturelle, kreative und ökonomische Praxis
Ahlers, M., Herbst, J.-P. & Holtsträter, K., 19.05.2025, Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 304 p. (Lied und populäre Kultur; vol. 69)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Published
Songwriting Camps: Kollaborative Songwriting-Praxis zwischen Songwriting-Tradition und musikwirtschaftlicher Transformation
Wernicke, C., Zaddach, W.-G., Ahlers, M. & Herbst, J.-P., 01.03.2025, Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft: Analysen – Positionen – Perspektiven. Pfleiderer, M., Just, S., Wernicke, C. & Jost, C. (eds.). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 197-218 (Populäre Kultur und Musik; vol. 43).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- 2024
- Published
Songwriting Camps: Geschichte, Theorien und Erkenntnisse zur Fließband-Produktion von populärer Musik
Ahlers, M. & Herbst, J.-P., 19.08.2024, »Parallelgesellschaften« in populärer Musik?: Abgrenzungen – Annäherungen – Perspektiven. Appen, R. V., Chaker, S., Huber, M. & Prieske, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 315-342 28 p. (Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung; vol. 48)(~Vibes – The IASPM D-A-CH Series; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
‘The song factories have closed!’: songwriting camps as spaces of collaborative creativity in the post-industrial age
Herbst, J.-P., Ahlers, M. & Barber, S., 29.06.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Creative Industries Journal. 17, 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Modellierungen außerinstitutioneller Aneignungsprozesse digital-materieller Interfaces und (musik-)pädagogische Anschlüsse
Neuhausen, T. & Ahlers, M., 09.05.2024, Musik – Digitalisierung – Bildung. Neuhaus, D. & Keden, H. J. (eds.). München: Kopaed, p. 77-100 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review