Music in Cultural Theory

7.5 credits

Course, Master's level, 5MU068

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Location
Uppsala
Pace of study
50%
Teaching form
On-campus
Instructional time
Daytime
Study period
1 September 2025–9 November 2025
Language of instruction
English
Entry requirements

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

All qualified applicants will be admitted.

Fees
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.
  • First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,500
  • Total tuition fee: SEK 12,500

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Application deadline
15 April 2025
Application code
UU-52912

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Registration period
11 August 2025–31 August 2025
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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.

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