MASTER’S DEGREE
POPULAR
MUSIC CHOOSE FROM FIVE SPECIALIZATIONS
Department of Popular Music University of Agder, Nor way
In our Master’s program in Popular Music you get the opportunity to work within one of five specializations: • • • • •
Popular Music Performance Electronic Music World Music Music Management Popular Musicology
POPULAR MUSIC PERFORMANCE MASTER SPECIALIZATION In the specialization Popular Music Performance, the focus is on your personal artistic expression and musical identity. Through further development of your artistic and technical proficiency, you get well prepared for work as a musician on a high level. The specialization also includes a theoretical component, where methodological work and tendencies within popular music studies will merge with your own performance practice.
POPULAR MUSIC PERFORMANCE › Admission requirements: BA degree in Music Performance, or equivalent, which contains a minimum of 80 ECTS in Music Performance. Entrance exam and interview. Read detailed admission rules online. › Application Deadline, International Applicants: 1st December › Application Code: 9306
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ELECTRONIC MUSIC MASTER SPECIALIZATION The specialization Electronic Music focuses on performance and its relationship with music technology and sound design.
Central aspects of this specialization are composing, programming and producing electronic music. The theoretical component follows the specialization in Popular Music Performance.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC › Admission requirements: BA degree in Music Performance, or equivalent, which contains a minimum of 80 ECTS in Music Performance or Electronic Music. BA in Music Technology can be accepted. Entrance exam and interview. Read detailed admission rules online. › Application Deadline, International Applicants: 1st December › Application Code: 9308
WORLD MUSIC MASTER SPECIALIZATION The basis of our World Music specialization is the student’s own traditional music, linking it to music from other parts of the world.
World Music is suited for performing musicians and music educators who wants to build bridges across cultures and explore their own stylistic repertoire. The theoretical component focuses on existing theories, methods and interpretations within traditional folk music, and encourages independent work with the relevant methodological tools of artistic research.
WORLD MUSIC › Admission requirements: BA degree in Music Performance, or equivalent, which contains a minimum of 80 ECTS in Music Performance. Entrance exam and interview. Read detailed admission rules online. › Application Deadline, International Applicants: 1st December › Application Code: 9307
MUSIC MANAGEMENT MASTER SPECIALIZATION Music Management is designed as a comprehensive specialization aimed at developing a specific set of skills necessary to understand and work in the music industry as an entrepreneur or employee. The core competencies taught are emerging markets, emerging rights (revenue streams) and emerging technologies. It contains subject areas as marketing, economy, music, administration and law. The specialization is about developing practical skills in the subject areas, as well as exploring and developing the purely academic aspects of these subjects.
MUSIC MANAGEMENT › Admission requirements: BA degree in Music, Business Administration, Arts Management, or equivalent. Applicants with relevant BA degrees within the field of Culture/Music/Arts may be admitted after individual assessment. › Application Deadline: International: 1st December. From the EU: 1st March. › Application Code: 9305
POPULAR MUSICOLOGY MASTER SPECIALIZATION The specialization Popular Musicology has its focus on a theoretical approach towards popular music.
The specialization provides insight in and understanding of tendencies, discourses and present subjects at the forefront of international research, i.e.: popular music in media and market; popular music as historical process; popular music and society – culture, technology, industry; popular music as sonic phenomena; popular music as performance practice.
POPULAR MUSICOLOGY › Admission requirements: BA degree in Music performance, Musicology, or equivalent, which contains a minimum of 80 ECTS in Music Performance/Musicology. Read detailed admission rules online. › Application Deadline: International: 1st December. From the EU: 1st March. › Application Code: 9309
The master’s program leads to the degree of Master in Popular Music. The performance specializations qualify for creative and performative work within the cultural sector, in addition to more specialized performance based work. After completion, you have also achieved qualifications to establish your own music business. The theoretical specializations offer relevant skills for working in music organizations, media, record companies, and copyright agencies. A completed Master’s degree in Popular Music qualifies for PhD-level work, e.g. at the Faculty of Fine Arts, UiA.
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CONTACT - MASTER IN POPULAR MUSIC POPULAR MUSIC PERFORMANCE Associate Professor Per Elias Drabløs E-mail:per.e.drablos@uia.no Phone:+47 38141920
MUSIC MANAGEMENT Adrian F. Andersson E-mail:adrian.f.andersson@uia.no Phone:+47 38141360
WORLD MUSIC Professor Bjørn Ole Rasch E-mail:bjorn.o.rasch@uia.no Phone:+47 38141922
Professor Bendik Hofseth E-mail:bendik.hofseth@uia.no Phone:+47 38141949
Assistant Professor Ingolv Haaland E-mail:ingolv.haaland@uia.no Phone:+47 38141755
Professor Michael Rauhut E-mail:michael.rauhut@uia.no Phone:+47 38142361
ELECTRONIC MUSIC Professor Erik Gunvaldsen E-mail:erik.gunvaldsen@uia.no Phone:+47 38141921
Professor Tor Dybo E-mail:tor.dybo@uia.no Phone:+47 38141933
POPULAR MUSICOLOGY
Assistant Professor Henrik J. Brodtkorb E-mail:henrik.j.brodtkorb@uia.no Phone:+47 38141488
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