Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
| Popakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH | |
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| founding | 2003 |
| place |
 Mannheim
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| state |
 Baden-Württemberg
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| country |
 Germany
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| management |
Udo Dahmen (Artistic Director, Managing Director and Head of the Popular Music Department) and
Hubert Wandjo (Business Director, Managing Director and Head of the Music and Creative Industries) |
| Students | 377 (WS 2018) |
| Website | www.popakademie.de |
The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg (University Of Popular Music And Music Business) is a state university for popular music and the music industry based in Mannheim . It was founded in 2003 by the state of Baden-Württemberg .
The range of courses comprises three Bachelor and two Master courses .
In addition to its function as a university institution, the Popakademie is also a competence center for the music industry and scene, in which projects in regional, national and international contexts are implemented.
history
The Pop Academy emerged from the Rock Foundation Baden-Württemberg , which was founded in 1996 by the SWR (formerly SWF ) and the state as a pilot institution for the purpose of promoting the regional music scene of Baden-Württemberg in Baden-Baden . This had mainly made a name for itself with projects such as the band pool , advanced training seminars and the pop.forum industry meeting.
In 2003, on the initiative of Stuttgart State Minister Christoph Palmer, the State of Baden-Württemberg founded the Pop Academy. The Mannheim concept of the Mayor of Culture Peter Kurz was able to prevail against the ideas from Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Udo Dahmen , Dirk Metzger and Hubert Wandjo were entrusted with the management of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg .
In the 2003/04 winter semester, the first year of study started the bachelor's degree in the field of popular music or music business. At that time, it was the first time in Germany that an undergraduate bachelor's degree was offered in these fields. Initially, the Popakademie moved into transition rooms in downtown Mannheim . The new Popakademie building in Mannheim's Jungbusch district was ready for occupancy in the 2004/05 winter semester .
The first structural expansion took place in 2008 with the move to Hafenstrasse 82, where a recording studio , further rehearsal rooms and the digital research laboratory SMIX.LAB have been located since then .
For the 2011/12 winter semester, the range of training courses at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg was expanded to include two master’s courses. For the new offer, the main building was extended by two floors with additional lecture rooms, rehearsal rooms, studios and offices.
Education
The Pop Academy is divided into an artistic and an economic department. Each area includes an accredited six-semester Bachelor of Arts and a four-semester Master of Arts course. In February 2015, Science Minister Theresia Bauer and Mannheim's Lord Mayor Peter Kurz announced that the Popakademie would be receiving a bachelor's degree in world music that is unique in Germany for the 2015/16 winter semester .
The degrees correspond to those of an artistic university in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Prerequisites for admission to the bachelor’s degree in pop music design are several years of artistic experience in the context of pop music. In addition to the general higher education entrance qualification, you can also apply with an intermediate educational qualification if you take an additional test for applicants without a university entrance qualification. In addition to the general university entrance qualification, the prerequisites for admission to the Music Business bachelor's degree are initial experience in the music or creative industries. A bachelor's degree is required for the master’s courses. Interviews and, if necessary, practical exams take place prior to admission. There are no tuition fees for studying at the Popakademie, which starts every year in the winter semester.
Popular Music Department
Head: Udo Dahmen
- Pop Music Design (Bachelor of Arts)
- World Music (Bachelor of Arts)
- Popular Music (Master of Arts)
Music and Creative Industries Department
Head: Hubert Wandjo
- Music business (Bachelor of Arts)
- Music and Creative Industries (Master of Arts)
The approximately 150 lecturers at the Popakademie include important personalities from the artistic and music industry (see list of lecturers at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg )
Students and graduates of the Pop Academy have been involved in many successful collaborations, such as the number one albums by Casper , Cro , Frida Gold and Tim Bendzko . They work as musicians, composers, lyricists and producers or are active in management and various areas of the music industry.
See also: List of students and alumni of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
International
The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is part of a worldwide partner network and cooperates with many international universities and institutions. As a member of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC) and the MU: ZONE network, the Popakademie promotes the intercultural exchange of students and lecturers.
The Popakademie has an Erasmus University Charter . More than ten percent of the students come from abroad.
The Popakademie regularly hosts projects such as the European Band & Business Camp, the International Songwriter Week and the International Summer Camp, which serve as a platform for musicians from all over the world.
Partnerships (selection):
- Ballyfermot College Of Further Education - ( Dublin / Ireland )
- Dublin Institute of Technology , BIMM (Dublin / Ireland)
- Linnaeus University / Rock City Hultsfred ( Hultsfred / Sweden )
- University of Westminster - Department of Commercial Music ( London / England )
- Conservatori Luisa d´Annunzio ( Pescara / Italy )
- Escola Superior de la Musica de Catalunya ( Barcelona / Spain )
- Bern University of the Arts ( Bern / Switzerland )
- Herman Brood Academie ( Utrecht / Netherlands )
- Fontys Rockacademy Tilburg ( Tilburg / Netherlands)
- PHL Music ( Hasselt / Belgium)
- University of Agder ( Kristiansand / Norway )
- Columbia College ( Chicago / USA )
- Middle Tennessee State University (USA)
- Pop Music Academy of Sichuan , Conservatory of Music ( Chengdu / China )
- European Music Office (Belgium)
- European Association of Conservatories (AEC) Working group Pop and Jazz Platform (Belgium)
- Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand ( Auckland / New Zealand )
Competence center
In addition to its function as a university institution, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg sees itself as a competence center for pop culture and the music industry and implements projects in a regional, national and international context.
Recurring regularly (selection):
- Bandpool - funding program for bands
- Future Music Camp - BarCamp and congress on topics of the digital music industry
- KLINKT - artist agency for students and alumni
- Conference Future Pop - Congress with topics from music and pop culture
- Open House - Public talks with personalities and celebrities from culture, science and business
- RegioNet - funding of pop culture in Baden-Württemberg
- Pop goes to school - making music together with students
- SMIX.LAB - Research Center for the Digital Music Industry
- Mediation of popular music - agency for music education
- Training seminars on weekends
Awards
In April 2017, the Popakademie was awarded the ECHO in the "Partner of the Year" category. A few days earlier, the Pop Academy received the PRG LEA Live Entertainment Award for "Promoting Artists and Young Talent 2016" from Udo Lindenberg in Frankfurt. On June 23, 2017, Alice Merton presented the Pop Academy with a gold record for 200,000 units of her hit " No Roots " sold.
financing
The Popakademie is financed by the state of Baden-Württemberg, the city of Mannheim, the Südwestrundfunk and the State Institute for Communication Baden-Württemberg (LfK). In the first ten years since it was founded, additional start-up financing was provided by the former shareholders Universal Music and a Mannheim group of companies. In addition, various projects are financed through sponsorship and other subsidies.
literature
- Lothar Scholz, The Music Industry - Training Paths and Fields of Activity. Schott Music , Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7957-8734-9 .
- Christian Bielefeldt, Udo Dahmen , Rolf Großmann: PopMusicology: Perspektiven der Popmusikwissenschaft. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-603-8
- Udo Dahmen , Popular Culture: A living part of our cultural canon. In: Politics & Culture . Newspaper of the German Cultural Council. Edition: No. 6/13 • November / December 2013, pp. 1–2
- Tim Renner , We had sex in the rubble and dreamed: The truth about the pop industry , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-8270-1161-2 .
- Udo Dahmen , Andreas Margara , Best of 15: 15 Jahre Popakademie , Schott Music , Mannheim 2018 (including LP), ISBN 3795700272
Web links
- Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Band pool of the Pop Academy
- Sounds
- ZEIT Online: "BAP singer Niedecken praises the Pop Academy"
- Musikexpress: "Linus Volkmann visits the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg"
- Faz.net: "Crisis Winner in Pop-Tristesse"
- Süddeutsche.de: "Mannheim - A city dares to venture out"
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.popakademie.de/de/ueber-uns/struktur/
- ^ Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. Accessed on March 13, 2012
- ↑ Jörg Thomann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Das Bauhaus der Popmusik , December 6, 2002. Accessed March 15, 2012
- ↑ Jochen Schönmann, Spiegel Online : Popakademie Mannheim: "They have to be cool, not us" , September 22, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2012
- ↑ Goethe.de: Play me the song about structural change , October 2013 Retrieved on August 15, 2014
- ↑ Focus.de: Popakademie receives unique center for world music , February 7, 2015. Accessed March 3, 2015
- ↑ A success story - 10 years of the Baden-Württemberg Pop Academy. (No longer available online.) In: Metropolis. Arte, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 5, 2015 (German).
- ↑ Jörg-Peter Klotz, Mannheimer Morgen : Lotrümmern im Kerker-Studio , September 20, 2013 Retrieved May 15, 2014
- ↑ Anna Hesse, Deutsche Welle : 10 Years Popakademie Mannheim , October 14, 2013 Retrieved on May 19, 2014
- ↑ Focus : The dream of the big music business , July 19, 2013 Retrieved March 11, 2014
- ↑ Jochen Schönmann , Die Tageszeitung : School of Pop , July 19, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2012
- ↑ Thierry Backes, Süddeutsche.de : Stoiber's Transrapid speech on drums , February 1, 2013 Retrieved on August 12, 2014
- ^ Cooperation International: The Dream of the Big Music Business , July 19, 2013 Retrieved March 11, 2014
- ^ Popakademie.de: international partner network. Accessed on August 11, 2014
- ↑ KLINKT // HOME. In: www.k Nahrungsmittel.de. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone : Echo 2017: The first winners have been announced , April 6, 2017. Accessed April 13, 2017
- ↑ MusikWoche : Alice Merton thanks the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg with precious metal , June 27, 2017. Accessed July 4, 2017
- ↑ State Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg (LfK) Retrieved on March 13, 2012
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Cultural Funding: Federal Government Funds the Popakademie , June 9, 2003 Accessed August 12, 2014
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