Popular Music and Culture

As part of this Popular Music and Culture program from Leeds Beckett University , 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

Career

With more festivals and independent production companies than ever before, understanding the links between popular music, culture and the rapidly changing music industry is increasingly important, whether you are a researcher or practitioner. You could use the course to further your research interests by studying for a PhD or take up employment opportunities in sound engineering, performance, teaching, songwriting, production, music for film and television, music journalism, marketing and PR or events organisation.

• Performer

• Songwriter

• Sound Technician

• Events Organiser

Courses include:

• Popular Music Culture, History and Heritage

• Popular Music Analysis

• Music Industries in Context

• Music Industries in Practice

• Negotiated Skills Development

• Research Practice

• Final Individual Project