MA Popular Music

1 Year On Campus Masters Program

University of Chester

Program Overview

This is a modular course leading to the award of MA in Popular Music. The course will be of interest to those concerned with the exploration of all aspects of performance. Our course is designed to develop your creative skills and theoretical understanding to an advanced level. Our course offers you the opportunity to shape your learning through a series of modules that will enable you to integrate scholarly work with your own practice as a musician, composer or musicologist. Our modules consider current theoretical and practical debates in the subject area, and will guide you through the kind of research methodologies required at Master's level. You will be given the opportunity to negotiate the most effective means of approaching your subject, with a view to producing an intensive study of your specialism.

Program Key Stats

£14250 (Annual cost)



Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Career Options

  • In addition to professional work as performing musicians
  • graduates have gained employment as education professionals
  • lecturing in Further and Higher education as well as becoming peripatetic teachers for county music services and private schools

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