This online taster session will give you an insight into what it's like to study Music at the University 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.

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

Book your place

Contact us

For informal enquiries email tasterdays@sheffield.ac.uk