You can take the modules offered on this programme as part of the MMus programme. Click here to find out more. 
Popular Music Studies at Newcastle is
distinguished by its encouragement of scholarly research on Western pop
alongside 'traditional' and 'world' popular musics. Members of staff at
ICMuS have a lengthy track record of publication, composition,
performance and recording and have received invitations to speak at
major international conferences (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cuba,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, USA), research seminars (UK, USA) and
guest lectures (Chile, UK, Puerto Rico, Sweden, USA). Cross-school
collaborations have resulted in major international events such as the
first Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds conference,
held in Newcastle in 2006 and the ¡VAMOS! festivals (ongoing). ICMuS has
also hosted the 2002 IASPM (International Association for the Study of
Popular Music) UK & Ireland conference, a seminar series in
collaboration with Centre for Gender and Women's Studies/Instituto
Camões in 2001-2002, and the 2007 BFE (British Forum For
Ethnomusicology) conference entitled ‘Between Folk and Popular’.
Some facts about the teaching of popular music at ICMuS
- We run a highly successful BMus degree in Popular and Contemporary Music (see here for more)
- Popular music is a vital part of ICMUS’s claim for inclusivity, as recognised in the Centre’s leadership of Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (CETL) for Music and Inclusivity
- Our research profile is committed to engaging with all aspects of popular music and popular musicology (click here for more on this)
- As part of its ongoing commitment to the ‘democratisation of the possible’, ICMuS hosts the online journal Radical Musicology.
Staff teaching and researching in this area
- Paul Attinello (Modernist and Postmodernist music and theory, especially since World War II, music and gender) click here for more
- Ian Biddle (music & politics; gender & sexuality; psychoanalysis; popular musics) click here for more
- David Clarke (analysis & theory; music & culture) click here for more
- Nanette De Jong (ethnomusicology; the African diaspora; Salsa; memory; performance) click here for more
- Will Edmondes (improvisation, studio-based composition, Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz & counterculture) click here for more
- Kirsten Gibson (early modern English secular song; print culture; gender; historiography and critical theory) click here for more
- Bennett Hogg (composition, ethnomusicology, cultural history and theory of technology, psychoanalysis) click here for more
- Goffredo Plastino (ethnomusicology; world music/world beat; traditional & popular musics, especially of the Mediterranean) click here for more
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