University of Groningen
MA Music, Theatre and Performance Studies
Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,530 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* € 2530 (EU/EEA students) | € 18700 (non-EU/EEA students)
Introduction
This Master's Program offers two specializations: one in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures and another in Theatre, Culture and Media studies. Each specialization encompasses both emergent and historically established practices in music and theatre and the performing arts.
Within both the music and theatre specialization, we highlight those phenomena which most impact the organization, experience, and creative potential of music and theatre makers and audiences in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. MA students examine the current constitution of music or theatre organizations, as well as the impact of broader processes such as globalization, digitalization, urbanization, festivalization, and mobility upon expanding forms of creativity. Because humans continue to shape creative experience within cultural fields, these two specializations aim to uncover how music or theatre remain relevant for understanding broader relations between culture, society, and the arts.
We examine these and other processes in historical contexts and in our musical and theatrical present, where economic crisis in recording and performing industries has led to vast rearrangements of musical and theatrical labour and changing conceptions of the public sphere. Because this program highlights the complexity of the contemporary popular music, art music, and theatre professional worlds, students enter arts professions with specialized knowledge and skills, which ensure that they are highly employable.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
This Master's Program offers two specializations: one in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures and another in Theatre, Culture and Media studies.
These two specializations aim to uncover how music or theatre remain relevant for understanding broader relations between culture, society, and the arts. Our students examine artistic practices and expanding forms of creativity in response to global phenomena, such as environmental and economic crises, mediatization, urbanization, migration and mobility.
The study Program includes an internship in the music or theatre industry through our extended network of established Dutch and international arts and cultural institutions. Our students acquire specialized knowledge and skills, which ensure that they are highly employable in the professional arts and media sectors.
Program Outcome
Credits: 60 ECTS
MA in Arts & Culture