Postgraduate Music Modules

SOAS MMus and MA Music students can also take as a credited part of their programme one module a year at Kings College London Music Department, choosing modules from the current list on the KCL website. Please note that a) modules in Performance and Composition are not permitted as part of the agreement; and b) you will need to obtain the written consent of the convenor of the KCL course before enrolling. 

Please note: Not all modules listed may be available every year. Please contact the relevant course convenor or Faculty Office and refer to the lists below.

Running 2018/19

• Analysing World Music: Transcription & Analysis in Ethnomusicology
• Atlantic Africa: Players in the Mediation of African Popular Music
• Dissertation in Music
• Indian vocal music: Styles and histories
• Music in Africa: Critical Listening
• Music in Development
• Music in Global Perspective
• Music on the Silk Road: travel and circulation (PG)
• Music, Place and Politics in Cuba
• Music, Urbanism and Conflict in Jaffa
• Performance
• Performance As Research
• Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia (PG)
• Sacred Sound in South Asia
• Sound Recording and Production
• The Music Business (Masters)
• Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology

Courses Not Running 2018/19

• Aspects of Music and Religion in South East Asia
• Composition
• Gender and Music (MMus)
• Klezmer Music: Roots and Revival
• Music and Healing
• Music in Africa: Travelling on a Song
• Musical Traditions of East Asia (Masters)
• Pop and Politics in East Asia (Masters)
• Raga: concept and practice (PG)