The Beatles, Popular Music & Society (MA)

Liverpool Hope University

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In Liverpool

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  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Liverpool

  • Duration

    12 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Overview
* Apply now for the New £10,000 Postgraduate Loan Scheme (PGL)
Hear Professor Tassilo Erhardt, Hope's Professor of Musicology, discuss studying Liverpool Hope's Postgraduate provision for Music in this video developed by Postgraduate Search TV.
A unique opportunity to study in the city of Liverpool, home of The Beatles and with access to leading Popular Music academics and Beatles specialists, this MA is the only one of its kind in the UK and the world.

This MA will examine the significance of the music of The Beatles in the construction of identities, audiences, ethnicities and industries, and localities; by doing so it will suggest ways to understand popular music as a social practise, focusing attention on issues such as the role of music in the construction of regional identities, concepts of authenticity, aesthetics, meaning, value, performance, and the use of popular music as a discursive evocation of place. Furthermore, in a consideration of popular music as a text, popular music semiotics will also be employed.

This MA will be of interest to those working in the fields of popular music studies, cultural studies, social anthropology, politics, gender studies, and musicology, among others. Such a course is an essential addition to the discipline of Popular Music Studies.
For further information download The Beatles, Popular Music & Society MA Leaflet
Location: Creative Campus, Shaw Street
Course: Masters Degree
Course Fees: £4,500 (UK & EU)
Duration: Full-time and Part-time
Start Date: September entry only
Graduates with a 2:1 or above maybe entitled to a scholarship, for further information click here fees and funding
This degree is available as a full time course for all international students. For more information about International students studying at Liverpool Hope, visit www.hope.ac.uk/international

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Liverpool (Merseyside)
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Hope Park, L16 9JD

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Entry Requirements
Normally a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours Degree in a relevant discipline.
Applications from students who do not hold a 1st or 2:1 Honours Degree (or equivalent) will be asked to demonstrate potential to achieve a Masters award via a sample of academic writing and interview before an offer is made.
For students whose first language is not English there is a language requirement of IELTS 6.5 overall (reading 6, writing 6), TOEFL ibt 87, or other equivalent recognised English language qualification. For additional...

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<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <p>Currently four taught modules are offered on this programme.</p> <p>Texts and Contexts: Understanding Popular Music</p> <p>This will offer you an understanding of how Popular Music Studies has expanded and developed to deal with the changing nature of popular music over the past 50 years. This module will also provide students with contextually related research methods.</p> <p>Topics in History: Liverpool</p> <p>This module will introduce and discuss musical production and consumption within the post WWII era and will discuss the roles of locality, economics, space and place, and other issues specifically relating to Merseyside.</p> <p>Musicology and the Beatles</p> <p>In this module you will take a popular music semiotics approach and will textually analyse a variety of Beatles material.</p> <p>Historical and Critical Approaches</p> <p>You will be invited to study a more ethnographic approach to the Beatles, the various cultural discourses surrounding their music, and the local tourist industry established in Liverpool to capitalise on the group.</p> <p>The Dissertation module will be introduced to students towards the end of the Topics in History module with a request for student abstracts, the allocation of supervisors, and the agreement of research areas.<br><br>Please Note:</p> <p>1. The Postgraduate Certificate will be awarded on the successful completion of 60 credits. This will consist of two taught modules.</p> <p>2. The Postgraduate Diploma will be awarded on the successful completion of 120 credits. This will mean the completion of all modules apart from the Dissertation.</p> </div>

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