
Australia
Department of Contemporary Music Studies
Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Contact: Lisa Cuffe
Phone +612 9850-9245
School of English
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Contact: Sue Kossew
Telephone +612 9385 2296, Fax: +612 9385 1047
Centre for Contemporary Music
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
Contact: Jean Griffiths
Phone: +61 66 203856, Fax +61 66 223194
Queensland Conservatorium
Griffith University
PO Box 3428, South Brisbane BC 4101, Queensland, Australia
Contact: Peter Roennfeldt
Phone: +61 7 3875 6279; Fax: +61 7 3875 6262
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW Australia 2006
+61 2 9351 2222

Austria
MA in Music Management
Center for Contemporary Music
Danube-University Krems, Austria
Contact:Andrea Kaufmann
Phone: +43 (0)2732 893-2571
Fax: +43 (0)2732 893-4570
Research Department Popular Music (Forschungsbereich Popularmusik)
University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna
Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien
Metternichgasse 8; A-1030 Wien, Austria
Contact: Harald Huber, Institut für Musikpädagogik
Phone: +43 1 7136130/14
Institute of Musicology / Institut für Musikwissenschaft
University of Vienna / Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Contact: Michael Weber
Phone: +43 1 4277-41657, Fax: +43 1 4277-9416

Brazil
Department of Anthropology
Federal University of Santa Catarina
88.090-400 Florianópolis SC, Brazil
Contact: Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Phone/Fax: +55 48 331-9714
Escola de Música
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Rua do Passeio 98, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22240-090, Brasil
Contact: Samuel Araujo
Phone: +55 21 205-7643; Fax: +55 21 557-8865
Instituto Villa-Lobos
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio De Janeiro – UNIRIO
Av. Pasteur 436 Urca Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22290-240, Brasil
Contact: Silvio Merhy
Phone: +55 21 2542-3311

Canada
Faculté de Musique
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, Centre-Ville
Montréal
Québec H3C 3J7
Canada
Contact: Philip Tagg
Phone: +1 514 737-2244
Faculté de Musique/Faculty of Music
Université Laval
Québec QC G1K 7P4
Canada
Contact: Serge Lacasse
Phone: +1 418 656-2131, ext. 15113
Fax: +1 418 656-7365
Faculty of Fine Arts
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
Contact: Charity Marsh, Canada Research Chair in
Interactive Media and Performance
Phone: +1 306 337-2623; Fax +1 306 585-4439
Graduate Programme in Musicology & Ethnomusicology
York University
225 Winters College, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
Contact: Rob Bowman
Phone: +1 (416) 736-2100 ex. 77132; Fax:+1 (416) 736-5321
Institute for Popular Music
University of Alberta
11054-89 Avenue, second floor
Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2C9
Contact: Adam Krims
Phone: +1 403 492-8212; Fax: +1 403 492-9246
M.A. in Popular Music and Culture
An interdisciplinary MA offered jointly by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Graduate Program Assistant
Don Wright Faculty of Music
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON N6A 3K7
Contact: Shelly Koster
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext.85354
Fax: 519-661-3531
Popular Music Studies
Department of Music History – Faculty of Music
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7
Contact: Dr Robert Toft
Phone: +1 519 661-2111, ext 85358; Fax: +1 519 661-3531
Schulich School of Music
McGill University
Strathcona Music Building, 555 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1E3
Contact: David Brackett
Tel.: 514-398-4535 | Fax: 514-398-8061

Denmark
Department of Musicology
University of Copenhagen
Klerkegade 2, 1308 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Contact: Morten Michelsen
Phone +45 35 32 37 91; Fax +45 35 32 37 38

Finland
Department of Musicology
University of Helsinki
Vironkatu, 1
00014 Helsinki
Contact: Prof. Dario Martinelli
Phone: +358 9191 24677
(Department coordinator, Ms. Irma Vierimaa)
Musicology
School of History, Culture Research and Art Studies
20014 University of Turku
Finland
Contact: John Richardson
Phone: +358 2 333 5691

France
UFR de Musique et Musicologie
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
1, rue Victor Cousin
75 230 Paris Cedex 05
France
Contact: Laurent Cugny
Fax: +140 46 25 88

Germany
Centre for Popular Music Research/Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik
Humboldt-University Berlin/ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Seminar für Musikwissenschaft, Am Kupfergraben 5
Postanschrift: Postfach, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Contact: Peter Wicke
Phone +49 (0)30 208 1537, Fax +49 (0)30 2093 2062
Institute for Musical Folklore-Studies
(Institut für Musikalische Volkskunde)
Cologne University / Universität zu Köln
Gronewaldstr. 2, D-50931 Köln, Germany
Contact: Gisela Probst-Effah
Phone +49 (0)221 470-5267, Fax +49 (0)221 470-5174
Music Department – Music and Media
(Institut für Musik – Musik und Medien)
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118, D 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Contact: Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer
Phone +49 (0)441 798 2311, Fax +49 (0)441 798 4016
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
University of Popular Music and Music Business
Hafenstraße 33
68159 Mannheim
Tel:+49-621-53 39 72 00
E-mail: info@popakademie.de
Contact: Heiko Wandler (M.A. Popular Music)
Dr. David-Emil Wickström (B.A. Pop Music Design)
Popular Music and Media (Populäre Musik und Medien)
Faculty of Humanities and Arts
University of Paderborn, Germany
Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
Contact: Christoph Jacke
Phone +49 (0)5251-602960, Fax +49 (0)5251-603745
The German "Arbeitskreis für das Studium Populärer Musik" provides a list of addresses with Universities and other academic institutes in Germany and Austria offering courses in Popular Music.

Japan
College of Music
Ferris University
37 Yamate-cho, Naka-ku
Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-8651
Japan
Contact: Akitsugu Kawamoto
Phone: +81-45-641-8396
Graduate School of Socio-Environmental Studies
or
Department of Music
Graduate School of Education
Kanazawa University
1 Kakuma, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1164, Japan
Contact: Toru Mitsui
Phone: +81 762 64 5562, Fax: +81 762 64 5619

Netherlands
Popular Music
Studies
Department of Art, Culture and Media
University of Groningen
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
Contact: Kristin McGee
Popular Music Studies
Institute of Art History and Musicology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Utrecht University
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29
3529 HD Utrecht
The Netherlands
+ 31 30 2536155
Contact: Dr. L.D.M. Mutsaers

New Zealand
Department of Music
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand
Contact: Shelley Brunt
Phone +643 479 4595
The Music Department
Southern Institute of Technology
(Te Whare Wananga O Murihiku)
Private Bag 90114 Invercargill, New Zealand
Contact: Dr Sally Bodkin
Phone: +64-3-2112699, Fax: +64-3-2144977
The Music Department
The University of Waikato
(Te Whare Wananga O Waikato)
Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand
Contact: Ian Whalley
Phone: +64-7-838-4439, Fax: +64-7-838-4269

Norway
NISS –Nordic Institute of Stage and Studio
Popular Music Dept
Christian Krohgsgt. 2
0186 Oslo, Norway
Contact: Audun Molde
Phone: +47 97 78 55 69
Section for Musicology/ Avdeling for musikkvitenskap
Department of Music and Theatre/ Institutt for musikk og teater
University of Oslo
Postbox 1017, Blindern
N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Contact: Stan Hawkins
Phone: +47 22 85 40 63 Fax: +47 22 85 47 63

South Africa
School of Music
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban 4041
South Africa
Contact: Christopher Ballantine
Phone +27 31 2601052; Fax +27 31 2601048

Sweden
Department of Musicology
Göteborg University
P.O.Box 200, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Contact: Alf Björnberg
Phone +46-31-7734085; Fax +46-31-7734089

United Kingdom
American Studies
University of Derby
Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 IGB, UK
Contact: Simon Philo
Phone: +44 1332 591890, Fax:: +44 1332 622736
BA (Hons) Popular Music
University of Northampton
St George’s Avenue, Northampton, NN2 6JD
Contact: Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
Phone: +44 01604 735500
BMus in Popular Music Studies
Department of Music
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW
Contact: Ian Gardiner
Phone: ++44 (0)20 7919 7640
Buckinghamshire New University
Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 2JZ
Email: advice@bucks.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1494 522414
Fax: +44 1494 524392
Department of Music
University of Glasgow
14 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Contact: Martin Cloonan
Phone: 0141 330 4093
The Department offers 3 postgraduate programmes in Popular Music:
Popular Music Studies
Popular Music Studies (Music Industries)
Popular Music Studies (Creative Practice)
Department of Music
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
Contact: Professor Richard Middleton
Phone: +44 191 222 6736, Fax: +44 191 222 5242
Department of Music
University Park
University of Nottingham
NG8 1NF, UK
Contact: Professor Adam Krims (Director of Post-Graduate Admissions)
Phone: +44-115-951-4755, Fax: +44-115-951-4756
Department of Music and Performing Arts
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT
England
Contact: Justin Williams (Head of Popular Music)
Phone: +44 0845271 2458
Department of Music and Sound Recording
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH
United Kingdom
Contact: Allan Moore
Institute of Popular Music
School of Music, University of Liverpool
Roxby Building, Chatham Street
Liverpool L69 7ZT
England/UK
Contact: Sara Cohen
Phone: +44 151 7943101, Fax: +44 151 794 2566
London College of Music
Thames Valley University
St Mary’s Road
London W5 5RF
Contact: Mujtaba Naseem
Tel: +44(0)20 8231-2190
B.Mus in Popular Music
M.Mus in Popular Music
Also BA and MA degrees in Music Technology, Audio Technology and Record Production
MA in Music (Popular Music Research)
Department of Music
Goldsmiths
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7917 7607/ 7640 (fax; 7644)
Contact: Keith Negus
Music
Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
Contact: Dr Dai Griffiths
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484959
Fax: +44 (0)1865 484952
We offer undergraduate modules on Popular Music, MA pathways in Music and Popular Culture and Music on Stage and Screen, and have a dedicated Popular Music Research Unit.
Popular Music Research Unit
Faculty of Media, Music and Performance
School of Popular Music and Recording
Adelphi Campus
Peru St., Salford, Greater Manchester, M3 6EQ, England/UK Contact: Professor Sheila Whiteley
Phone: +44 161 295 5000, Fax: +44 161 834 3327
Update:
Bretton Hall College no longer exists – it has merged (from Aug 2001) with the University of Leeds, UK, and this is where courses now operate.
School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Contact: Vic Gammon, BA Popular and World Musics
Tel +44 (0)113 343 2418
University of Huddersfield
Music Department
Contact: Rupert Till R.Till@hud.ac.uk
+441484422288

United States
California
Music Industry Studies/Recording Arts
California State University, Chico
Chico, Ca 95929-0805, USA
Contact: Paul Friedlander
Phone: +1-530-898-5243; Fax: +1-530-898-4082
Musicology Department
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Box 951623
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Contact: Robert Walser
Phone: +1-310-206-1087; Fax +1-310-206-9203
Music Department
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Contact: René T.A. Lysloff
Phone: +1 909 787-3606; Fax: +1 909-787-4651
Florida
College of Music
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
Phone (850) 644-3424 . Fax (850) 644-2033
Contact: Frank Gunderson
Indiana
Archives of African American Music and Culture
Indiana University Bloomington
Director: Portia Maultsby
Smith Research Center
Suites 180-1812, 805 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47408-2601, USA
Contact: afamarch@indiana.edu
Phone: +1 812 855-8547; Fax: +1 812 855-8545
Department of Afro-American Studies
Indiana University Bloomington
Memorial Hall East
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Contact: Portia Maultsby
Phone:+1 812 855-2708; Fax: +1 812 855-4869
School of Music
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Contact: Glen Gass
Phone: +1 812 855-9460; Fax: +1 812 855-4936
New Jersey
Master’s Program in Jazz History and Research
Rutgers University, Dept. of Arts, Culture, and Media
110 Warren St., Bradley Hall, Room 213
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Contact: Lewis Porter
Phone: +1-973-353-5600, ext. 30; Fax: 973-353-1392
New York
CCNY Popular Music Studies
Department of Music
The City College of New York
Convent Avenue at 138th Street
New York, NY 10031 USA
Contact: Jonathan Pieslak
Phone: +1 212 650-7665; Fax: +1 212 650-769
Department of Music
Columbia University
621 Dodge Hall, MC 1813
New York, NY10027 USA
Contact: Professor Ellie Hisama
Phone: +1 212 854-3825; Fax: +1 212 854-8191
Institute for Studies in American Music
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889
Contact: ISAM
Phone: +1 718 951-5655; Fax: +1 718 951-4858
Ohio
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701 USA
Contact: Dora Wilson
Tennessee
Center for Popular Music
Middle Tennessee State University
Bragg Mass Communications Bldg.
Box 41, Murfreesboro TN 37132, USA
Contact: Paul F. Wells
Phone: +1 615 898 2449; Fax: +1 615 898 5829
Department of Recording Industry
College of Mass Communication
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 21, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA
Contact: Paul D. Fischer
Phone: +1 615 898 2578, Fax: +1 615 898 5682
Texas
Latin Music Studies – M.M. Mariachi and Salsa tracks
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Contact: John Lopez
Phone: +1-512-245-7401
Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Contact: Veit Erlmann
Phone: +1 512 232-2092
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