Music in Cultural Theory
Course, Master's level, 5MU068
Autumn 2023 Autumn 2023, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 28 August 2023–29 October 2023
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. Proficiency in English equivalent to the general entry requirements for first-cycle (Bachelor's level) studies.
- Selection
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All qualified applicants will be admitted.
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- Application fee: SEK 900
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,500
- Application deadline
- 17 April 2023
- Application code
- UU-52912
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 31 July 2023–21 August 2023
- Information on registration.
About the course
This course approaches music as a cultural phenomenon from anthropological, historical and sociological premises. Different ways to grasp and understand musical processes, activities and practices are elucidated by a rich literature of cultural theories and perspectives, as well as different aesthetical and critical positions.
Central perspectives in the course include:
- questions concerning the production of meaning in music by way of language
- the elucidation and observation of codes for status, politics, power and matters of identity in music
- the theoretical framing of mediated and live music as a cultural phenomenon, locally and globally
- the study of different degrees and varieties of well-founded assumptions, positions, myths and canonisations in music.