Course summary
This programme allows you to develop the business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.
- The Music Pathway allows you to build on a historical and theoretical understanding of cultural and creative industries and the development of a cultural economy to create your own creative initiatives, which might be research-based, policy-based, practice-based, or a combination of any or all of these.
- The MA will be taught in partnership by a number of departments within Goldsmiths and with key individuals and organisations in the creative and cultural industries sector.
- Our collective approach is to integrate entrepreneurship within the development of creative practices and to take a ‘creative’ approach to the development of new businesses and the infrastructure that supports them.
Modules
The programme contains four taught modules and a further dissertation/portfolio component. Attendance is mandatory for all taught sections of the programme. To encourage collaborative learning we try to teach all students together wherever possible, irrespective of their particular pathway. Compulsory modules Theories of Capital 30 Credits Entrepreneurial Modelling 30 credits Dissertation 90 credits or Project/Portfolio 90 credits You will also choose one of the following modules: Industry Placement 30 credits or Sector Overview Performing Arts and Audience Development and Fundraising 30 credits or Business of Creative Industries 30 Credits Option modules You will also take 30 credits of optional modules from a list provided by the Department of Music. Examples of past optional modules include: Music Management 30 credits Analysing Contemporary Music: From Serialism to Spectral Noise 30 credits Popular Music and its Critics 30 credits Sources and Resources in the Digital Age 30 credits Contemporary Ethnomusicology 30 credits Advanced Music Studies 30 credits New Directions in Popular Music Research 30 credits Philosophies of Music 30 credits Contemporary Music: Practice and Discourse 30 credits Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard, or equivalent, in a relevant/related subject. Evidence of some engagement with or experience of contemporary music making as a performer or creative artist is desirable, whether in classical, popular or world music genres, together with some understanding of management/administration issues as they particularly relate to music and musicians. We also welcome applications from students who are practising musicians who may wish to enhance their entrepreneurial skills, or develop a specific music-related company or business. Students who have completed up to 90 credits (not including final 60-credit projects or dissertations) of a comparable degree at another university can apply for recognition of prior learning status as part of their application for a place on the programme, where such credits are carried forward into your study at Goldsmiths. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
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Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW