Postgraduate MA and PhD Study in Popular Music
University of Huddersfield
https://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/pmsrg/postgraduatestudy/
Students can study popular music at the University of Huddersfield at MA, MPhil or PhD level, and can include composition, performance, musicology, music technology and production. Students participate in a lively research environment, with 50 postgraduate students and a regular programme of events, concerts and seminars. Applications are encouraged which include practice based research, such as composition, performance or studio production, this work is usually accompanied by a short thesis. PhD by Publication allows those who already have a large body of existing research to evidence that existing work within 12 months of study.
Recent postgraduate project subjects have included:
- The influence of literary techniques on British psychedelic songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s (thesis and set of original songs)
- The use of the 1176 compressor in studio production
- Extreme metal production techniques
- Ambient music composition (thesis and set of original tracks)
- Richie Hawtin and minimal techno (thesis and set of original tracks)
- Studying the development of popular music identities using phenomenological psychology
- Oral history, locative media, oral history, and sound walks
- Iraqi Besta music
- Italian popular music studies
- Dancing in electronic trance music cultures
- Popular music performance tuition in higher education
- The music of Elton John
- Popular music interactive installation art
More details available at: https://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/pmsrg/postgraduatestudy/