Music Management MA

This course is subject to approval.<br/><br/>This course has a practical focus on innovative leadership, and the development of understanding specialist knowledge and skills that are required to navigate the music industry.<br/><br/>Managing in the music industry is a unique career that spans talent scouting, artist representation, performer career management, contract negotiation, music promotion and publicity, event coordination, advocacy, industry regulation, effective business communication and industry norms.<br/><br/>This programme is designed to help you understand this unique combination of skills. We believe in industry aligned courses with practical learning and assessments.<br/><br/>This course includes a placement module so you can gain industry experience alongside your in-class learning.<br/><br/>The business skills you will learn include:<br/><br/><br/>- understanding basic accounting and financial principles.<br/><br/><br/>- business strategy and specialist modules on managing and leading people.<br/><br/><br/>- entrepreneurship and marketing within the creative industries.<br/><br/><br/>- In your music industry modules you will critically engage with the big picture of the music industry, from income streams, success metrics and balancing that with working with artists: developing a sensitivity to issues of equality and diversity in the workplace and familiarising yourself with the legal, financial and questions that face managers and leaders of in the music industry.<br/><br/><br/>Who is this course for?<br/>You could be a new graduate or have an amount of relevant work experience.<br/><br/>Whatever you pathway to an MA we will help you to move up the career ladder in the music industry, by providing both a solid foundational grounding in management and a more advanced understanding of the big picture of the contemporary music industry.