BA in Global Popular Music

Please note that a 15 credits module corresponds to a 0.5 unit (taught over one term) and a 30 credits module corresponds to a full unit (taught over both terms).

Students are required to take modules to the total value of 360 credits over the duration of their degree, 120 credits per year. A 30 credits module will be taught over both terms, while a 15 credits module is taught over one term.
Up to 90 credits may come from "open option modules" (modules outside of this programme - e.g. language or non-music modules), but only 30 credits of open option modules may be taken in each year.

You will take six 15 credits introductory modules and up to 30 credits of open option modules.

• Global Pop - 155800089 (15 credits)
• Music and Culture - 155800060 (15 credit)
• Performance 1b - 155800062 (15 credits)
• Sounds and Cultures - 155800071 (15 credits)
• Studying Popular Music - 155800090 (15 credits)

• Great Works: recordings, objects, films -158100003 (15 credits) or
• Performance 1a - 155800061 (15 credits)

You will take one compulsory module and must choose one skills module in recording or in radio presenting and at least two modules on popular music (including, among others, Global Hip Hop, Pop and Politics in Israel, Music of Cuba. You can also select other modules offered within the Music Department (including generic modules such as Music and Gender, regional modules on musical traditions of Asia and Africa, and performance, available from the lists below, and up to 30 credits from our open option modules.

• The Music Business - 155800053 (15 credits)

You will take two compulsory modules and choose one skills module, one popular music module and other modules offered within the Music Department (including generic modules such as Music, Shamanism and Healing, regional modules, and performance, available from the lists below, and up to 30 credits from our open option modules.

• Arts, Culture & Commodification: Themes in the Global Creative & Cultural Industries - 158100001 (15 credits)
• Urban Soundscapes - 155800083 (15 credits)

• Global Pop
• Music and Culture
• Performance 1b
• Sounds and Cultures
• Studying Popular Music

• Performance 1a
• Great Works: art, films, literature, music

• Atlantic Africa: (P)Layers of Mediation in African Popular Music (UG)
• Classical singing in India: continuity and change
• Jaffa: Music and Urbanism in the Contested Middle East
• Mughal Arts: Sound, Text, and Image
• Music and travel on the Silk Road
• Music in Africa
• Music in Africa: Critical Listening - The Mande World
• Music in Africa: Musical Crosscurrents in East Africa and the Indian Ocean
• Music, Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
• Music, Religion and Society in South Asia
• Musical Traditions of East Asia
• Pop and Politics in East Asia
• Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia (UG)
• Raga: concept and practice
• The World of Cuban Music

• Arts, Culture and Commodification: Themes in the Global Creative and Cultural Industries
• Composition
• Critical Readings in Arts and Cultures
• Curating Global Arts
• Directed Study in Popular Music
• Gender and Music
• Global Hip-Hop
• Introduction to Sound Recording
• Music, Shamanism and Healing
• Presenting World Music On Radio
• The Music Business

• Extended Essay in Music 1

• Performance 2
• Performance 3

Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules