Music Industries

Course description

This programme provides an opportunity to explore the music industries - with a focus on popular music - from the perspectives of history, research methods and theory, contemporary debates, and work-based learning. Making the most of the city of Glasgow and its vibrant popular music ecosystem including a rich network of venues, festivals, and small to medium music businesses, this degree is distinctive for its emphasis on work-based learning with opportunities for arranged projects with existing music companies and artists on the one hand, or supervised music entrepreneurship projects on the other.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**

- Our approach is multidisciplinary: we employ a variety of academic approaches and draw upon the University's expertise in a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, musicology and politics.

- You will be studying in the City of Glasgow with its vibrant and exciting music scene – the UK’s first UNESCO city of music.

- You will benefit from access to our facilities including seminar and practice rooms, a small library, an audio lab, studios, and the University’s concert hall.

**PROGRAMME STRUCTURE**

The programme combines a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, musicology and politics.

The Music Industries Project, which runs over semesters one and two, provides the opportunity to undertake a work-based project in a music industries environment.

**Semester 1**

In semester one you will take a compulsory core course, and choose one credit compulsory core course, and one elective option.

**Core Courses**
POPULAR MUSIC RESEARCH
WORKING IN MUSIC SINCE 1900 (or an approved elective option)
MUSIC INDUSTRIES PROJECT (part 1) - The first half of a 40 credits full year course with entrepreneurship and arranged project pathways within the Scottish music industries.

**Semester 2**

In semester two you will take one credit compulsory core course, one compulsory core course, and one elective option.

**Core Courses**
THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC INDUSTRIES
POPULAR MUSIC POLITICS (or an approved elective option)
MUSIC INDUSTRIES PROJECT (part 2) - The second half of a 40 credits full year course with entrepreneurship and arranged project pathways within the Scottish music industries.

**Summer**
MUSIC INDUSTRIES DISSERTATION

At the end of semester two, you will undertake an in-depth research dissertation of 12,000 words, to be submitted in August.

Subjects

• Music