The book Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft. Analysen, Positionen, Perspektiven with my co-authored chapter "Songwriting-Camps: Kollaborative Songwriting-Praxis zwischen Songwriting-Tradition und musikindustrieller Transformation" has just been published.
The chapter explores songwriting camps as a contemporary form of collaborative songwriting within the evolving music industry. It examines their historical roots in industrialized songwriting practices and their role in the post-industrial, network-driven economy. Songwriting camps serve as creative hubs and commercial enterprises that balance artistic collaboration with market demands. Positioned within theories of creativity and cultural production, they reflect the tension between tradition and transformation. The chapter argues that songwriting camps function as both hit-making factories and networking platforms, exemplifying the shifting structures of music creation in the late modern era.
You can check it out here.