MA Music Industries Management

Researching Music introduces students to a range of different types of advanced music research and helps them develop the necessary knowledge and skills to independently devise, design, and manage the process of undertaking and completing a 60-credit music research project. Students explore what it means to do music research and how to design, focus, articulate and manage a large-scale music research project across professional scholarly and sector-facing fields. By the end of the module, students will have developed a proposal for their Music Research Project, providing the foundations for the next stage of their research. Students also explore ethical and health and safety considerations for undertaking music research will and complete the ethical clearance process for their Music Research Project as part of this module. In short, the module aims to facilitate students to become postgraduate level researchers.

Music and the Global Creative Economy enables students to develop the key skills and competencies of successful practitioners within the global creative economy. Students will develop an enhanced, future-facing understanding of music as an area of economic and cultural activity. Through a critical engagement with current research and workshops with current practitioners, each representing key skills and areas of professional practice, students will be equipped with the conceptual framework and experiential knowledge necessary to find their place within and adapt strategically to a continually evolving global music sector.

Students gain knowledge and skills in life music event organisation, including marketing and promotion, income generation and funding, organisational considerations and project planning and management. Through this work they gain a critical awareness of industry structures and a variety of perspectives of the ways of working in the ecosystems of music and the broader creative community. They learn to clearly communicate with audiences and stakeholders through a range of appropriate channels and formats.

The Recording Industry, Intellectual Property and AI is an examination of the industrial and policy frameworks that surround, and shape, the production, distribution, and consumption of recorded music. It provides students with the conceptual and critical tools to assess the regulatory and business mechanisms by which music becomes a ‘property’ that is managed, promoted, and exploited through technological evolutions.

Music Research Project advances academic and professional skills to facilitate the production of either a scholarly self-generated journal article or a sector commissioned live project report. Students undertake a substantial, independent textual, theoretical or empirical enquiry into an approved topic relating to Music Education or the Music Industries.

Creative and Cultural Sectors Past, Present, Future is a student-led exploration of how the culture industries developed, their present contexts, and their potential future directions. The module provides common conceptual ground, languages, and contexts to students from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds and with varying career aspirations.

Pedagogical Technologies is designed to provide students with broad theoretical knowledge and practical, skill-based competencies relating to the use of technology in music education, from early years through to secondary and higher educational contexts. A combination of theoretical study and practical work in technology for music education will support understanding, analysis and evaluation of differing educational practices.

Music Education, Community and Wellbeing explores current theory and practice in music education, community music, music therapy and music in healthcare. It critically considers interrelationships between the fields and conceptualises music learning and participation as lifelong and occurring both within and outside formal educational contexts.