Popular Music and Culture MA

Be part of a lively popular-music research community that embraces a wide variety of popular music and work alongside performers, composers and studio producers.

As part of this course, you'll:

• Join peers with backgrounds in music, cultural studies, music journalism, sociology, live music promotion and the creative arts
• Explore today's local live music scene and its connection to the wider industry
• Discover the interconnectedness of popular music and cultures worldwide
• Engage with the multiple modes of popular music such as audio, video and still images
• Use ethnographic and analytical methods to gain an understanding of popular music styles and cultures
• Discuss the ways in which popular music is produced, mediated, celebrated and sold to audiences through the use of cultural codes, symbols and signs
• Take a closer look at popular music history, how it's curated, constructed and circulated
• Investigate how popular music heritage has been represented, mobilized and interpreted

Once you have found the course you want to study in our online prospectus you will then click on the ‘Apply Now’ button located at the top of the online course page.

You will be asked to create an account on our application portal and complete your application via your Leeds Beckett account. Once you have submitted your application you should receive a decision in due course. The exception to this is if the course you have applied for has a closing date specified. In this case, we will wait until the closing date has passed before we contact you.