Peter Wicke

Peter Wicke (born 1951 in Zwickau) is a German musicologist, who is particularly interested in popular music; he teaches as a university professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

In 1992 he was appointed to the Humboldt University Berlin, where he held the chair for "Theory and History of Popular Music" until his retirement in 2016.

He was also director of the "Research Center for Popular Music" at the Department of Musicology of the Humboldt University.

Wicke is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and was its General Secretary in 1987 and 1991.

Wicke has published several international articles on theoretical, historical and cultural policy.