Music Industry Management (Taught)

Our course enables you to enhance and develop your management skills, so you can navigate the music industry better and capitalise on career opportunities as a manager within the creative industries. It provides a comprehensive and complementary educational and practical experience, combining postgraduate research with the most up to date management practice.

Throughout the course you explore the fundamentals underpinning successful management practice. This includes management theory, artist and product development, entrepreneurship, organisational structures and behaviours, new music business models, music streaming metrics and data insights that inform business decision making.

The curriculum promotes and supports real-world industry engagement and research through career-led practical project work that contributes to your ongoing professional development and personal career planning.

Course Highlights

• Real-world industry engagement via personal, distinct practical project work that is career led and tailored to your own goals.

• Combination of understanding sound management principles and gaining practical academic research skills in contemporary music management.

• Collaboration with industry professional mentors working on your own project.

• Practice led MA taught by practice led researcher practitioners.

The course employs a number of relevant assessment strategies: essays, reports, feasibility studies, evaluative presentations, portfolios, plus a dissertation and practice. You are introduced to the principles of documentation and evidence recording in the performing arts so that any insights gained from the embodiment of ideas in practice can be supported or illustrated by data. The course culminates in student led practice based, or research dissertation which require the asking of contemporary key questions.

Practical/written work ratio: 50% practical work / 50% reflective work