Music and Performing Arts
Cluster leader, Dr Alan Williams, Area leader, Music, School of
Music, Media and Performance
www.smmp.salford.ac.uk
Salford’s activity in the School of Music, Media and Performance has a distinct and separate flavour in the Manchester area with teaching and research in popular, band and jazz music and recording technology. Performance and dance are represented in this cluster by both courses and research interests. The School has extensive recording studios, dance studios and the Robert Powell Theatre.
Undergraduate programmes
School: Music, Media and Performance
Media
and Performance BA Hons *
Music
BA Hons
Popular
Music and Recording BA Hons
Performing
Arts BA Hons
Physical
Theatre and Dance HND
* course in both Media and Music and Performing Art
Postgraduate programmes
School: Music, Media and Performance
MA/PgDip/PgCert
Music - Compositional Studies Pathway
MA/PgDip/PgCert
Music – Performance Pathway
Research centres
Music Research Group
Interests include: performance; composition (jazz & brass bands);
music software and technology; ideology, gender & sexuality
in music; drugs and music and contemporary ‘classical’
composition and musicology.
Published Popular Musicology (scholastic journal) since 1994
Media & Performance
Research Group
Interests include performance for recorded media; digital multi-media
publishing; new writing for live performance; factual TV and radio
production
Academic Enterprise
In the music cluster this includes an annual programme of concerts, theatre, and dance performances and the Freeflow 1 and 2 web sites for music and media graduates starting in employment.