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Article

Herbst, Jan-Peter and Williams, Katherine and Tolstad, Ingrid and Barber, Simon (2024) The Benefits of Collaborative Popular Music Songwriting: A Spectrum of Artist-Songwriter Involvement. Popular Music and Society, 48 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN 1740-1712

Herbst, Jan-Peter and Ahlers, Michael and Barber, Simon (2024) ‘The song factories have closed!’: songwriting camps as spaces of collaborative creativity in the post-industrial age. Creative Industries Journal. ISSN 1751-0694

Barber, Simon and Hamilton, Craig (2022) Rate and review: Exploring listener motivations for engagement with music podcasts. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 20 (1). pp. 17-32. ISSN 1476-4504

Long, Paul and Barber, Simon (2017) Conceptualizing Creativity and Strategy in the Work of Professional Songwriters. Popular Music and Society, 40 (5). pp. 556-572. ISSN 0300-7766

Long, Paul and Barber, Simon (2015) Voicing passion: The emotional economy of songwriting. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18 (2). pp. 142-157. ISSN 1367-5494

Barber, Simon (2012) Soundstream: The Introduction of Commercial Digital Recording Technologies in the United States. Journal on the Art of Record Production, 7. ISSN 1754-9892

Barber, Simon and Wall, Tim (2012) The collective organization of contemporary jazz musicians in the UK. Jazz Research Journal, 5 (1-2). ISSN 17538637

Barber, Simon (2010) Smooth jazz: a case study in the relationships between commercial radio formats, audience research and music production. Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 8 (1). pp. 51-70. ISSN 14764504

Book Section

Barber, Simon (2020) Songwriting in the Studio. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production. Bloomsbury Handbooks . Bloomsbury Academic, New York, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9781501334047

Barber, Simon (2018) My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia. In: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Routledge Music Companions . Routledge, New York, pp. 455-464. ISBN 9781138231160

Carter, Oliver and Barber, Simon (2017) The Dragon Lives Again: Distributing ‘Bruceploitation’ via Home Entertainment. In: Cult Media. Springer, pp. 161-180. ISBN 978-3-319-63678-8

Barber, Simon (2017) Professional Songwriting Techniques: A Range of Views from the Sodajerker Interviews. In: The Singer-Songwriter Handbook. Bloomsbury, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781628920291

Carter, Oliver and Barber, Simon (2017) The Dragon Lives Again: Distributing ‘Bruceploitation. In: Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-180. ISBN 978-3-319-63678-8

Barber, Simon (2016) The Brill Building and the creative labour of the professional songwriter. In: The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter. Cambridge University Press, pp. 67-77. ISBN 9781316569207

Wall, Tim and Barber, Simon (2015) Collective cultures and live jazz in Birmingham. In: The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives: This Is Our Music. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 117-131. ISBN 9781317672715 (ISBN); 9781138780620 (ISBN)

Book

Barber, Simon (2017) The House Companion. Arrow Films, London.

Thesis

McIntosh, Claire-Gillian (2024) Teaching Through Music: The Curriculum for Excellence and Interdisciplinary Learning. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Sivak, Kateryna (2023) The Informal Screen Media Economy of Ukraine. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Hinksman, Alexander (2022) Creative Mastering: A New Culture of Audio Post-Production. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Morejón, Juan Pablo Viteri (2022) Independent music in Ecuador: Mestizaje, resistance and alternative media from the Global South. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Stevenson, S (2019) Discourses of Community Radio; Social Gain Policies in Practice. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Audio

Barber, Simon and O'Connor, Brian and Kane, David (2018) Riffs on the Beatles. [Audio]

Barber, Simon and O'Connor, Brian (2016) The Secrets of Songwriting. [Audio]