Music: Pleasure and repetition in popular music
Event details
Description
This online taster session will give you an insight into what it's like to study Music at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield. You'll have the chance to hear from one of our Music academics, participate in a taster lecture and engage with current undergraduates.
Pleasure and repetition in popular music
Popular music, it's so repetitive.
In this session we'll discuss appreciation of an often lambasted feature of popular music: its repetitiveness. We'll consider repetitive song structures, repetitive listening and repetitive beats with a particular focus on theories that attempt to explain why we often find such things to be pleasurable.
This session is suitable for students in years 12 and 13.
It was really useful and insightful to what studying the subject is like at Sheffield
Taster session participant
Schedule
Please note that this is an approximate schedule and is therefore subject to change.
- 5pm: Welcome and introduction to the department
- 5.05pm: Taster lecture
- 5.50pm: Questions and answers about the taster lecture, and about your subject at Sheffield, with an admissions tutor and current students
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Contact us
For informal enquiries email tasterdays@sheffield.ac.uk
International undergraduate scholarships
We offer a generous package of financial support for international undergraduate students, including scholarships worth £10,000 towards the annual tuition fee (worth up to £40,000 for four-year programmes).
Applications are open for existing offer holders for an undergraduate degree programme starting in autumn 2025.