Institute for Pop Music
Master of Music
The Institute for Pop Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts began teaching and learning at the Folkwang Campus Bochum in October 2014. It offers an advanced Master's course for pop artists who - supervised by a team of professionally qualified lecturers - develop their artistic profile comprehensively over four semesters. Aesthetics, reflection, economics and legal issues are combined to form a whole through a freely selectable combination of different artistic disciplines and in joint or individual projects. The end result is a Master of Music.
The institute sees itself not only as a place of learning, but also as a place of thought. Here, pop music is not understood as a rigid "style", but as a dynamic form of contemporary art that is always in relation to other art forms and is constantly being further developed in the context of pop culture - technically, discursively, politically and aesthetically. The Institute for Pop Music claims not only to follow the development of pop into the future, but to continuously shape it. Of course, we also learn from the old.
The Institute is conceived as a place for young creatives, for artists and at the same time innovative actors in pop music and stands for a high artistic quality of popular music in teaching and studies. The Master's degree program aims to promote excellent young personalities and revitalize the music scene in Germany
Study program
The Master's degree program "Popular Music" is an interdisciplinary project study program and is aimed at artists with a Bachelor's degree and artistic experience. The focus is on the creation of pop music as an independent art form.
- Start only in the winter semester
- Application deadline for the winter semester: March 15