Popular Music Studies
Teaching at LJMU
Popular Music Studies at LJMU is delivered by a team of four full-time members of staff with very different academic and professional backgrounds and musical specialisms. This allows us to offer a wide variety of modules within a coherent degree programme that includes aspects of musical analysis, ethnography, production, technology, composition, research, transferable skills and workspace and industry knowledge. Combining our academic expertise in popular music studies with our practical experience in the music and culture industries, our students have a nuanced learning experience encompassing both the academic and practical study of music in all its forms.
We are committed to providing a degree programme that contains both academic rigour and the means to attain levels of competence in a number of key skills. The department's continued collaboration with the music and cultural industries also ensures that students have a valuable element of vocational work embedded into their degree. Students are assigned a personal tutor and encouraged to construct a Personal Development Portfolio of achievements. As a consequence of our focus on employability, graduates of Popular Music Studies at LJMU are equipped with the skills to present themselves favourably to prospective employers.
