Popular Music and Activism
Course, Master's level, 5MU081
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Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025,
Flexible, 50%, Distance learning, English
- Location
- Flexible
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- Distance learning
- Number of mandatory on-campus meetings
- 0
- Number of optional on-campus meetings
- 0
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 1 September 2025–9 November 2025
- 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.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,500
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2025
- Application code
- UU-52917
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 11 August 2025–31 August 2025
- Information on registration from the department
Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025,
Flexible, 50%, Distance learning, English
For exchange students
- Location
- Flexible
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- Distance learning
- Number of mandatory on-campus meetings
- 0
- Number of optional on-campus meetings
- 0
- 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.
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 11 August 2025–31 August 2025
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
This module discusses and analyzes the relations between popular music and activism. Indicative content includes protest music, popular music and populism, music used by activist movements, music and social change, artists as activists in their music and life, activism aiming to change the music industry, and humor and satire as tools of activism in popular music.
Work from cultural theory, gender theory and popular music studies are drawn upon in the module. Theoretical and methodological perspectives from these three fields are studied. Further, within the module several strategies for social change are covered, and their application to popular music. The musical traditions and artists introduced in the course are from a variety of regions and popular music genres.
Outline for distance course: This is a distance course and as such requires students to have access to a computer with Internet connection. All the material will be provided through the course. There are no physical meetings or set times. The course is examined through continuous assessment.
Reading list
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