Here are
posters for the Barents
tour of the Sympathetic
Resonance Trio, which offers a program of timeless songs on the theme of peace,
empathy and international cooperation during wartime.
11/21/23
Tour Posters: Sympathetic Resonance Trio
11/18/23
Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era
It is a pleasure to announce a new book that promises to become an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the current state of music in Japan. The Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era is soon being published by Brill. It is edited by Henry Johnson, an accomplished ethnomusicologist who is known for his important books on Japanese instruments. Johnson has worked in this field for many years and is a skilled and meticulous editor who carefully selected leading experts to write on an array of topics for this anthology. Here is how the book is described:
“Exploring
an array of captivating topics, from hybridized Buddhist music to AI singers,
this book introduces Japanese music in the modern era. The twenty-five chapters
show how cultural change from the late nineteenth century to the present day
has had a profound impact on the Japanese musical landscape, including the
recontextualization and transformation of traditional genres, and the
widespread adoption of Western musical practices ranging from classical music
to hip hop.”
I am happy to
have developed a chapter for this book on the teaching of musical instruments
in Japanese schools, co-authored with Koji
Matsunobu as a research outcome of the Global
Competence Partnership project between our institutions. We look forward to
further collaborations of this kind, and I encourage anyone interested in this
topic to examine the book.
Here is a link to our chapter:
https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004687172/BP000027.xml
11/8/23
ISME Routledge Book Series
After some years,
the ISME Routledge
book series of the International Society for Music Education (on Routledge
press) is now seeing some changes.
It was a joy to
learn that I have been appointed to the Editorial Board along with a group of accomplished
scholars from around the world: Emily Akuno, José Luis Aróstegui, Pamela Burnard, Chee Hoo Lum, Alexandra Kertz Welzel, Susan O’Neill, and John O’Flynn. The series is led by senior editor Gwen
Moore.
Clearer procedures have now been established for handling proposals, contracting,
and reviews for robust quality assurance and I am pleased to report that we have some quite interesting
books on a broad range of topics coming soon!
11/4/23
Creative Innovations in Higher Education PhD Course
The next
Bergen Summer Research School (2024) will include an exciting new PhD course
called Creative
Innovations in Higher Education.
Colleges
and universities across the world are evolving to better meet the needs of a
changing society, seeking new opportunities through innovations in teaching,
research, outreach, and governance. This course will explore and critique
concepts and initiatives that promise to improve the effectiveness and
relevance of higher education.
Click HERE
for more information on Bergen Summer
Research School, which attracts PhD students from all around the world each
year.
Here is
more information about the course Creative Innovations in Higher Education:
Course leader
David
G. Hebert, Professor, Faculty of Education,
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen.
Course
lecturers
Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Vice Chancellor, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and
Technology (JOOUST), Kenya.
Chetwyn Chan,
Professor of Psychology, Vice President, Education University of Hong Kong.
Marianne
Løkke Jakobsen, Founding member and project
leader, The Global Conservatoire. Head of Department, Director of Global
Engagement, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
Tom
Are Trippestad, Professor of Educational Theory and
Policy, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Yusef Waghid, Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy of Education and Acting Head of Department at
Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Abdul
Quddus, Professor of Administration and
Organizational Theory, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Course
description
How can higher education become more effective, relevant, and inspiring? This
course is designed for future professors and university leaders who intend to
generate sustainable improvements.
Sometimes higher education is seen as an
“ivory tower”, distant from practical concerns, but many new approaches seek to
cultivate universities that are more directly engaged with professions and
local communities. Some initiatives that claim to be “innovative” come with
risks and provoke debates about the proper balance between financial costs and
educational quality, or between practical skills and holistic competencies.
Some forms of internationalization are
effective while others merely have a superficial impact. We will critically
examine examples of sustainable creative innovation in specific professional
fields, such as the training of teachers. Our course will focus on foundational
values, ongoing debates, and recent research findings, with the aim of
discerning which creative innovations are most promising for the future of
higher education.
Learning outcomes - Students will:
• Understand
how the higher education sector can contribute to the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals.
• Develop
a global sense of various ways that colleges and universities are changing
worldwide, and the underlying reasons for their evolution.
• Recognize
diverse approaches and initiatives to generate sustainable innovations to
teaching, research, outreach, and governance in higher education institutions.
• Critically
evaluate applications of “innovation” discourse in higher education.
• Produce research publications based on the course material.
Course leader
David G. Hebert, PhD, is a professor
with the Faculty of Education, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,
Bergen. He is also Honorary Professor with the Education University of Hong
Kong and Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands.
Additionally, he mentors postgraduate students with Kyambogo and Makerere
universities and teaches a course on arts policy for China University of
Political Science and Law. Author or editor of 10 academic books, he has taught
for universities on each inhabited continent. With grant support from Norwegian
government programs, he is now co-developing new doctoral programs in China and
Uganda.
Participation at the BSRS is credited under the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Participants submitting an essay, in a form of a publishable manuscript of 10-20 pages, after the end of the summer school will receive 10 ECTS. Deadline for submission will be decided by your course leader. It is also possible to participate without producing an essay. This will give you 5 ECTS. In order to receive credits, we expect full participation in the course-specific modules, plenary events and roundtables.
More
details: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/165806/creative-innovations-higher-education
Ethnomusicology of a European Composer
In just a
few months, a new book will be published by Mikolaj Rykowski (vice rector, Paderewski
Academy of Music, Poznan, Poland) as the fourth volume in Deep
Soundings: The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology (Lexington
Books, Rowman & Littlefield).
This book
applies the theoretical concept music glocalization and methods from historical
ethnomusicology to bring unprecedented insights into the life, times, and
social milieu of European composer Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924), who experienced
great success in the USA as well as central Europe. The book promises to be a
useful model for others who seek to apply an ethnomusicological perspective to western
art music.
Book description:
Music Glocalization and the Composer: The Case
of Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) examines the life and compositions of composer
Franz Xaver Scharwenka. Mikołaj Rykowski argues that Scharwenka held the
ability to function on a global scale relatively early in music history,
founding conservatories in Berlin and New York, becoming one of the first
artists to record music using cutting-edge audio technology of his time, namely
the Welte-Mignon rolls, and by staging his own opera at The Met. Using a
relatively new methodological perspective called music glocalization, Rykowski
enables us to explore the composer's cultural roots in Poland and observe how
the nineteenth century global sense of nationality influenced his musical
output.
10/31/23
Barents Tour
It was a
great pleasure to learn today that Sympathetic
Resonance Trio has been awarded some funding from the Norwegian Barents
Secretariat. This will enable us to work on project development and concert
planning in the Kirkenes
area, along the Russian border in the far Northeast of Norway.
We hope our songs from Norway, Russia, and the United States, will encourage the diverse peoples of that region (which has long depended
on mutually-beneficial trade with Russia) by sharing some collective hope as we all eagerly
await a return to peaceful and prosperous cooperation.
Image
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkenes#/media/File:View_of_Kirkenes.jpg
10/24/23
Courses in Doctoral Supervision
This year, 2023, will be my fourth year of doing some teaching for the annual university-wide faculty professional development course on Doctoral Supervision at University of Bergen UPED 691: Becoming a Supervisor: Community, Expertise, Dialogue. Each time this course has quite interesting discussions, and includes lecturers and young professors from a vast array of academic fields, so I look forward to it.
I am now developing a similar course
for faculty at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences through the Global
Competence Partnership project. Also, I am now authoring a book chapter that
discusses this topic through a critical literature review as well as reflections on my own experiences as a PhD student and mentor. There is so much to say about this topic, and I am hopeful that the chapter will be useful for readers.
Here are links to postings about
previous years in which I taught for this course: https://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2020/10/doctoral-supervision-course.html