MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship: Music Pathway
Ernest, MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship
1 year full-time or 2 years part-time.
Deadline: 30 June. If you're applying for funding, you may be subject to an earlier application deadline – 1 March is the deadline if you're applying for AHRC funding. Find out more about funding opportunities for home/EU applicants, or funding for international applicants.
We advise early applications, but may consider applications after the closing date. When applying, please specify your preferred pathway (in this case, Music). You must demonstrate in your written application and in interview that you have a capacity for creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and that you are able to meet the intellectual demands of the programme.
Find out more about applying
You should normally have an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant subject. Evidence of some engagement with or experience of contemporary music making as a performer or creative artist is desirable, whether in classical, popular or world music genres, together with some understanding of management/
administration issues as they particularly relate to music and musicians. The programme also welcomes applications from students who are practising musicians who may wish to enhance their entrepreneurial skills, or develop a specific music-related company or business.
If your first language is not English you need a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (including 7.0 in the written element) or equivalent. Find out more about our English Language requirements.
AHRC
The programme will enable those who have previously studied an area of creative study/practice, such as music, to start a career developing a business arising from an existing or new creative practice. This may relate directly to a 'product' or 'process' arising from you own practice or to a form of 'expertise', 'consultancy' or 'knowledge'. The programme will also equip those who wish to work within organisations that develop the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses with the capacity to flourish in a variety of contexts.
You can expect to develop an independence and integrity in developing creative ideas. You will be able to apply entrepreneurial approaches to creative projects and demonstrate an understanding of different business models to establish a creative enterprise. You will also develop team-working and leadership skills, and effective business and communication skills.
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Contact the Admissions Tutor.
The Music Pathway of the MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship allows you to develop the business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.
You will be able to build on a historical and theoretical understanding of cultural and creative industries and the development of a cultural economy to create your own creative initiatives, which might be research-based, policy-based, practice-based, or a combination of any or all of these.
The MA will be taught in partnership by a number of departments within Goldsmiths and with key individuals and organisations in the creative and cultural industries sector. Our collective approach is to integrate entrepreneurship within the development of creative practices and to take a ‘creative’ approach to the development of new businesses and the infrastructure that supports them.
What you study
In all pathways, this Master’s programme contains four taught courses and a further dissertation/portfolio component. All students take courses I and III, and Music Pathway students choose options in music for courses II and IV. Attendance is mandatory for all taught sections of the programme. To encourage collaborative learning we try to teach all students together wherever possible, irrespective of their particular pathway.
Course I: Theories of the Culture Industry: work, creativity and precariousness (30 credits)
This course sets out the key theorisations of the culture industry. While incorporating classical figurations of the culture industry, the course is primarily concerned with assembling a clear engagement with contemporary research, such as that spearheaded by leading researchers at Goldsmiths. It considers: the organisation and substance of work and of precarious labour; the developing debates and mechanisms of ‘intellectual property’; cultural workers’ development of institutions and networks; and contemporary configurations of the professional. You will learn to strategise cultural production and intervention through exploration of relevant material. The globalisation of the culture industry will provide a persistent and ambitious point of reference. The course is delivered by the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE).
Course II: Creative Practice (30 credits)
The Department of Music offers (subject to availability) the following 30-credit courses, one of which you must choose: Contemporary Ethnomusicology, Encounters in African American Music, Ethnographic Film and Music Research, Modernism and Post-modernism, Musicological Theory, Philosophies of Music, Popular Music and Cultural Theory, Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis, Research Methods in Music and Contemporary Culture, Sound Agendas, Sources and Resources, Soviet Music and Politics, Traditions of Practice, Working with Original Musical Documents. Please check that you meet the requirements for your preferred course. You can check the current timetable to find out when these courses take place (please note that this may be subject to change).
Course III: Entrepreneurial Modelling (30 credits)
This course provides useful models of entrepreneurial/business support, and nurtures your skills and attitudes to enable you to innovate. It provides a link between broad theory and specific practice, and focuses on how creativity can be strengthened when put through creative commercialisation modelling techniques. The course has evolved from NESTA’s Creative Pioneer Programme and will use the modelling techniques that were designed and have evolved from ‘The Academy’ and ‘Insight Out’, which provide approaches to commercialising creativity.
The course will critically review the key characteristics of successful enterprises, entrepreneurs and leaders within the cultural and more commercially focused creative industries. It will also look at the range of business models that exist, and review how best to build a financially sustainable organisation. The key areas of modelling techniques covered are: relationship modelling, evidence modelling, blueprint modelling and consequence modelling. The course is delivered by ICCE.
Course IV: Entrepreneurial Practices and
Modes of Production within one creative
industry sector (30 credits)
You take either IV(i) or IV(ii):
(i) College-based sector overview – delivered by the Department of Music, these courses deal with creative sector issues and case studies within the discipline. You will study a sector overview of music industries combined with management practice in audience development and fundraising.
(ii) Internship and management practice – you will undertake an internship within a SME, producing or research organisation within the cultural and creative industries. There will be initial taught/tutorial sessions on managing an internship and experiential learning. Assessment is via an analytical report on the ‘culture of management’ of the organisation. In some pathways this will be augmented by classes in specific skill areas (such as marketing), as students are likely to be working in skill-specific departments of organisations. The internship – which is organised by ICCE – is usually the equivalent of two or three days a week for three months.
Course V: Dissertation or Project/Portfolio plus reflective analysis (60 credits)
The dissertation/portfolio could range from an entirely written document researching a particular area of the cultural and creative industries to a fully developed proposal for a new business.
You can find out more about the Music pathway on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
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