This degree provides an opportunity to study popular music as a text-based discourse and to perform popular music professionally through an innovative integrated three-strand approach that combines study, performance, and business. You will be able to compose and/or perform at a professional level and use technological excellence and stagecraft in real-world scenarios by pursuing this degree. Additionally, you will acquire knowledge of the major breakthroughs that are pertinent to the national and worldwide popular music industries of the twenty-first century.