Musical Infrastructure in an International Context (2025/2026: periode 1)

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Cursusdoel

The students will work on their network in the industry, work together on a group presentation, and create a business plan. All the while, they will learn to situate their thinking, findings, and work within diverse, current academic discourses. The course also brings traditional infrastructures and technologies into current perspectives and engages with recent developments in both music and tech. The course will resonate with the adjacent Musical Knack Lab courses where additional practical skills are trained.

Vakinhoudelijk

The course Musical Infrastructures in an International Context helps you understand how the music industry functions. You’ll learn what the main structures are that underpin the industry. The most important is copyright, but it also involves financing, marketing, community building, and more. Finally, the course looks at how emerging technologies are impacting, changing, and disrupting how these infrastructures exert their pressures on the people operating in our music industries.

It all starts with the question of what the product is in our music industry. Is it the music, the artist, the record, an experience, or something else entirely? There’s lots of different visions active all at once and aimed at creating the music everyone loves. How do these come to life? In this course, we’re looking at answers to these questions by looking the infrastructure on which the industry is built. We’ll learn that there’s not one infrastructure, just like there’s not one music industry, but multiple. There are already so many institutions (concert halls, orchestras, ensembles, bands, pop festivals, broadcast organisations and the like). The course encourages students to address topics such as institutional aims, agencies and artistic profiles as well as their audiences, their position within the overall culture industry, the ways in which they are financed, how their products are distributed and consumed and received.

Aanvullende informatie

Career orientation:
Knowledge of history and contemporary position of international musicians and musical institutions; knowledge of how they operate, how they are financed, and how they are organized.

Werkvormen

Werkcollege
Toelichting

The course is a seminar with lectures, student presentations and classroom debate.

Bijdrage

When assignments are tackled in groups, each member will need to have a specific and well-defined role in the academic process.

Voorbereiding

The students are obliged to read the texts thoroughly and critically, prepare analyses and present their research results for class discussion.

Toetsing

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 10% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 0,5

- A relevant interviewee and a record of the interview - A reflection on the interview

t.b.a. via course syllabus.

Presentatie

Verplicht | Weging 30% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 1,5

Take an example from the past year to critique what we’ve learnt from the perspective of today’s music business. In the resulting presentation you will need to cover at least the following: - Intro to the topic (Marketing, Copyright, Emerging Tech, etc.); - Intro to the example; - Explanation of how the example doesn’t fit neatly into what we’ve learned about the topic; - Academic critique of how the example shifts the narrative around the topic; - Potential solutions for how to change elements in the topic to adapt to the new situation as put into practice by the example.

See syllabus.

Toets

Verplicht | Weging 60% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 3

Be detailed in how you plan to differentiate your offering creatively and commercially from historical precedents. The written assignment will be 2,000 words long and requires a strong academic layer of critique and support for your plan. Your mark will be based on the strength of the follow elements of the business plan: - What's the company? - What are the goals? - How will those goals be met? - Who's the audience? - Connecting the dots - overall analysis - Executive summary - Description of company and product - Market Analysis - Marketing Strategy - Budget and/or financial plan

See syllabus

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor de volgende opleiding:

  • Applied Musicology

Voorkennis

Advanced knowledge of general music history and music theory; basic knowledge of the the different elements involved in our musical infrastructure.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

Bachelor Muziekwetenschap.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • SYLLABUS
    Syllabus will be made available through Blackboard.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. M.H.F. Walraven m.h.f.walraven@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. M.H.F. Walraven m.h.f.walraven@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 2 juni 2025 tot en met vrijdag 20 juni 2025

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