Popular Music Industry, B.A.

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Our popular music program is all about collaboration--students helping students to succeed! Faculty with real world experience stand alongside you and guide you. At PBA, technology and craft join forces to create an environment rich in innovation and inspiration. You can do it all! Gain experience both behind and in front of the console. At PBA you can be artist and engineer, songwriter and producer. Come! Join the fun, and make your dreams come true.

College of the Arts

West Palm Beach

“If you are searching for excellent teaching and training to become a professional performing musician, there is no better place to be than in the Popular Music program at Palm Beach Atlantic University.”

— Jessalynne Madden, Popular Music Student

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What You'll Learn

The B.A. in Popular Music Industry prepares you to:

Apply conventions of jazz and popular music theory
Improvise vocally or instrumentally using scales and methods appropriate to the musical genre or style
Demonstrate effective songwriting skills
Create and perform a 45-minute concert in the popular music genre
Create and produce a professional recording of original music
Enter the music industry business

What Can I Do With This Degree?

Just a few of the opportunities you’ll be prepared for are:

Musician
Music teacher
Sound technician

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The College of the Arts includes Communication, Art & Media studies, and Performing Arts studies. Together they embrace a diverse group of disciplines that emphasize artistic expression, arts advocacy, redemptive storytelling, and transformational experiences. The fundamental strengths of each department are based upon innovative and critical thinking, historical and cultural awareness, a thorough examination of the creative process, and core Christian values.

We are connected to artists who through the centuries made tremendous sacrifices so the message of the arts could be passed from generation to generation. We are aligned with, and an extension of, those individuals. Our calling is significant. We have been entrusted with the Arts for our generation and as cultural archivists the ensuing artistic creativity generated during this time will be restorative, authentic, and inspiring.

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PBA awards over three million dollars in scholarships every year and 97% of PBA undergraduate students receive financial aid.

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