MA Popular Music

Course overview

Study level: Postgraduate

This course aims to develop your creative, critical, technical and culturally aware skills as a popular music practitioner to develop, craft, perform, co-create, immerse and share in the field of popular music.

We welcome popular musicians in songwriting and performance keen to explore innovative and sustainable creative practice and to develop avenues of interdisciplinary and culturally aware collaborations.

This course aims to attract popular music performers and songwriters from around the world; creative artists who seek new and dynamic ways in which to explore, extend, challenge, and hone their craft in a global context.

• Aim to operate confidently in a range of professional environments as a critically astute practising popular musician applying established and innovative approaches.
• You should learn to excel in working both collaboratively and independently as creative popular musicians.
• We aim for you to develop key transferable skills that enable you to operate at the forefront of the emerging new music industries.