MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy: Music Pathway

at Goldsmiths University of London

There are many ways of doing this degree part-time. We recommend having a conversation with the programme convenor about how to proceed, and to determine time commitments.

Please see the MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy term breakdown for full-time and part-time modules.

Modules within ICCE

Module title    

• Cultural Policy and Practice    
• Introduction to Audience Development  
• Introduction to Fundraising    
• Seminar Series & Guest Speakers    
• Management and Professional Practice 1: Work Placement  
• Management and Professional Practice 2: Business Planning for Arts Organisations    
• MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy: Dissertation    

Music Pathway option modules

It is advisable that you have studied a degree in Music, and covered some music theory prior to studying these modules.

Most ICCE students take the Music Management module listed below.

The modules currently available include:

Module title    

• Contemporary Ethnomusicology    
• Critical Musicology and Popular Music   
• Material, Form and Structure  
• New Directions in Popular Music Research    
• Philosophies of Music    
• Popular Music: Listening, Analysis and Interpretation   
• Music Management    
• Sound Agendas   
• Sources and Resources in the Digital Age  
• Soviet and Post-Soviet Music and Politics    
• Strategies for Performance   
• Working with Original Musical Documents    
• Philosophies of Music  

• An undergraduate degree of at least second-class standard in a relevant/related subject

International Tuition Fees:

£24350 per year

This pathway allows you to pursue your interests in music, acting as a supplementary course to the main body of the Arts Administration programme.

Graduates typically go on to careers in the following areas:

• Cultural policy: researching, developing, writing, analysing and evaluating policy for government agencies at national, regional and local level and for ‘think tanks’ concerned with culture and society
• Management in building-based and touring theatre, festivals, dance, music, and visual arts organisations
• Arts education, arts regeneration and arts for social and community purposes, all of which may be music-based
• Audience development, fundraising, programming and planning
• Independent producing in music, theatre, or gallery-based organisations