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Study Music.

Study Music.

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Why Flinders?

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Build your professional identity within the music industry.

Ideal for passionate musicians and budding industry professionals, this degree is suited to those who would like to gain key industry knowledge as well as business and marketing skills to be successful professionals in a competitive environment.

This degree is aimed at students who are interested in working in the music industry (promotion, management, administration), or forging a career as an independent artist or producers. Enhance your understanding of the music industry, and forge a path for your future career.

⬆︎
8.7%

Music professionals

* National Skills Commission, 2021 Employment projections for the five years to 2026

Ranked No.1 in SA
in Creative Arts for full-time employment, student support and teaching quality.

The Good Universities Guide 2024 (undergraduate), public SA-founded universities only

Ranked No.4 in Australia
in Creative Arts for learner engagement.

(The Good Universities Guide 2023 (undergraduate))

Five stars
in Creative Arts for full-time employment and student support.

(The Good Universities Guide 2024 (undergraduate))

Study Options

Bachelor of Creative Industries (Music)

Your heart beats for the music industry? Then this is the degree for you. Gains hands-on skills preparing you specifically for this field. Learn about marketing, legal contracts, management as well as audio and music video production.

Bachelor of Creative Industries (Festivals and Arts Production)*

Find your niche in the arts industry in Australia. You'll be learning about marketing, production and strategic skills in arts management, government policy in the arts and festival curation. 

*Available at Flinders City campus.

Study at Flinders City campus.
Where potential meets possibility.

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Study at Flinders City campus. 
Where potential meets possibility.

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Careers

Music is an industry-focused degree that prepares you for employment in a variety of positions in a highly dynamic and diverse international industry.

Potential occupations

Studying the Bachelor of Creative Industries (Music) can lead to a variety of jobs. These include independent artist, music promoter, social media marketer, record label manager, recording studio manager and music industry administration.

Potential employers

Whether you are looking for local, interstate or international employment, your skills will be highly sought after by record labels, recording studios, artist management agencies, booking agents, music publicists, streaming services and the live and touring industry. 

Why study Music at Flinders?

  • Connect with industry leaders 
  • Take your study global with a semester exchange
  • Gain practical experience as part of your study
  • Take part in industry projects
  • Be equipped with the knowledge of the latest evidence-based practice 

Teaching staff

Our incredible teaching and research staff are experts in their professions and well-connected to industry.

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Michael Scott

"Researching entrepreneurial action and work in the creative Industries is exciting because it is an incredibly dynamic field; new technologies, new markets, and new ways of working are always appearing. 

"Technical knowledge – although important – is not always a guarantee of success, so understanding how cultural entrepreneurs develop images, personas, and present themselves as authentic, adds a symbolic aspect to understanding to what is often a risky commercial undertaking."

After a career as an independent musician, including multiple albums and international tours, Michael was awarded a PhD scholarship. 

His Doctoral research analysed government support for the development of national music industries as a hybrid component of Creative Industry policy and social policy.

Since 2012, Michael has held a balanced academic position at Flinders during which he has taught sociology and social theory, cultural sociology, and urban geography.

He continues to create music as a ‘serious leisure’ activity, playing regularly around South Australia and occasionally recording new music.

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Dr Sean Williams

"There are no boundaries around what is “acceptable” or “proper” when it comes to music. People like what they like and make what they make, and it’s all worthy of study. Taking a close look at other people’s processes will help us better understand our own, in order to unleash our full potential as composers.

"Music, maths and writing are very different expressions of creative processes that I believe are related in fundamental ways. All three use specialised languages to convey key concepts and processes; all three have the capacity to build vast edifices of incredible complexity that may yet appear to the wider public very simple in conception. I find the overlap between these fields endlessly fascinating, and often draw on two or more when creating."

Under his real name and as “theadelaidean”, author Sean Williams has been building a parallel career as a composer in the field of experimental ambience, with his tenth album being released late in 2022 by Projekt Records, alongside a score of tracks through international labels in the UK and US.

A past winner of the Young Composer Award, his work has been performed in venues as diverse as the National Museum of Australia and Slingsby’s Hall of Possibility, and has featured in worldwide performances by experimental UnPiano Trio.

Recently, he created original soundscapes for exhibitions by visual artists Thom Buchanan, Chris Houghton and Julia Robinson.

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