Sociomusicology: April 2014

4/26/14

New Musicology Book to Press

I am pleased to announce that on Monday (April 28, 2014) the complete manuscript for a new book will finally be sent to the publisher:

Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology, edited by Jonathan McCollum and David Hebert (Lexington/Rowman&Littlefield, in press, 2014).

Click HERE for a link to a preview of this book, as published in the journal Ethnomusicology Review.

Click HERE for a book announcement and sales information on the Amazon website.

This book offers a detailed description of new developments in global music historiography, including techniques applicable to historical research across an array of music specializations: ethnomusicology, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies, early music performance practice, and music education history. It presents a unique perspective, informed by recent technological developments as well as interdisciplinary application of new theories from such fields as philosophy of history and historical sociology.

Contents

Foreword: The Past is No Longer a Foreign Country ix

Keith Howard

Acknowledgments xvii

Chapter 1

Foundations of Historical Ethnomusicology 1

Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert

Chapter 2

Methodologies for Historical Ethnomusicology

in the Twenty-First Century 35

David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum

Chapter 3

Philosophy of History and Theory in Historical

Ethnomusicology 83

David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum

Chapter 4

Hearing Echoes, Sensing History: The Challenges

of Musical Diaspora 147

Judah Cohen

Chapter 5

Ancient Music, Modern Myth: Persian Music

and the Pursuit of Methodology in Historical

Ethnomusicology 173

Ann Lucas

Chapter 6

Analysis of Notation in Music Historiography:

Armenian Neumatic Khaz from the Ninth through

Early Twentieth Centuries 195

Jonathan McCollum

Chapter 7

Southern American Fiddling through the

Mid-Nineteenth Century: Three Snapshots with

Modern Connections 255

Chris Goertzen

Chapter 8

A Tale of Two Sensibilities: Hindustani Music and

its Histories 277

Daniel M. Neuman

Chapter 9

The Legacy of Music Archives in Historical

Ethnomusicology: A Model for Engaged Ethnomusicology 283

Diane Thram

Chapter 10

Contested Contextualization: The Historical

Construction of East Asian Music 311

Keith Howard

Chapter 11

Advancing Historical Ethnomusicology 335

Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert

Index 358

About the Contributors

Click HERE for more information about the book.

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77,000 Page Views

For seven years I have posted a few statements per month onto this blog, typically just some recent observations or an update of my activities as a music professor. It is hard to believe that as of this week there have been a total of over 77,000 page views. Below are images that describe the audience, which turns out to be quite international, and it is also interesting to compare the charts for “all time” vs. “this month”. There are many visitors from Eastern Europe this month, probably related to my recent keynote speech in Poland and visit to Latvia, but recently there are fewer visitors from Oceania, perhaps because it has been such a long time since I was living in New Zealand.

4/5/14

Music and Globalization

Soon the 11^th international conference Musica Practica, Musica Theoretica will be held at the Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland, on the theme of “Music from the Perspective of Globalization”. I look forward to giving a keynote speech for this conference, which I have entitled “Globalization and Research Methods in Musicology” (displayed: public domain image, map of Poznan from 1617).

Link: https://app.box.com/s/s07l1d54vu91qg97igww

Following the conference in Poland, I will participate in the 7^th international conference Theory for Practice in the Education of Contemporary Society in Riga, Latvia. I gave a keynote speech for that conference in 2012, and will be chairing a session and presenting a paper this year.

Link: http://www.rpiva.lv/index.php?mh=teorija_praksei

This travel to Poland and Latvia (sponsored by Erasmus and Nordplus programs) follows the conclusion of another fascinating project: Across the past week I have performed as a member of an opera chorus with the Edvard Grieg Choir in the Bergen National Opera production of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, The Golden Cockerel. This was presented with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Grieg Hall, featuring outstanding artistic directors and soloists. It was a great pleasure to work with such accomplished professionals across an array of fields: directors, choreographers, stage designers, costume makers, conductors, dancers, singers, etc. News media and critics have awarded this opera production the highest possible ratings, noting the “world class soloists with dazzling stage design and direction”. Displayed here are publicity photos by Magnus Skrede, released on the Bergen National Opera website. In these scenes from the opera, I am the Boyar in the red hat and robe, gesturing toward the dancers and gazing at our dying Tsar (played by Andrew Shore). The diverse participants in this opera demonstrate the role of globalization in music today, with soloists, directors, managers and orchestral musicians from all throughout the world.

More information:

http://eng.bno.no/whats-on/2013-2014/the-golden-cockerel/

Welcome to Sociomusicology

For over 15 years (since 2007), this website has offered musings on contemporary society and its music by David G. Hebert, PhD. He is a sociomusicologist specializing in global music education who has held academic positions with universities on five continents. Dr. Hebert is now a tenured full Professor with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. There he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group and manages the multinational government-funded Nordic Network for Music Education, which organizes annual intensive Master courses and exchange of teachers and students across eight countries. He is also an Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and an Honorary Professor in China with the Education University of Hong Kong.

Professor Hebert's research applies an international-comparative perspective to issues of pluralism, identity, and cultural relevance in music education, as well as processes by which new music traditions emerge and change - both sonically and socially - as they are adopted into institutions. Born in the 1970s, he is among the most widely-published and globally-active music scholars of his generation (h-index:20; i10-index:30), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).