Sociomusicology: Music and Globalization

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/

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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).