Sociomusicology: July 2014

7/19/14

International Music Institutions Leaders Forum 2014

I am pleased to announce an exciting new development scheduled for this Autumn (2014). As part of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the founding of China Conservatory, the International Music Institutions Leaders Forum (IMILF) - a global meeting for directors of higher education music institutions - will be held in Beijing (September 19-22).

Here is a partial list of speakers for this event:

Keynote Addresses:

-Gary McPherson (University of Melbourne, Australia)

-Jiaxing Xie (China Conservatory-Beijing)

-David Hebert (Bergen University College, Norway)

Invited Speakers:
-Jonathan Stock (University College Cork, Ireland)
-Marianne Løkke Jakobsen (Royal Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark)

-Alex Ruthmann (New York University, USA)

-Patricia Gonzalez (University of Chihuahua, Mexico)
-Dan Bendrups (Griffith University, Australia)

-Gabriel Solis (University of Illinois, USA)

-Boh Wah Leung (Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)
-David Williams (University of South Florida, USA)
-Paul Woodford (Western University, Ontario, Canada)

Other speakers and participants will soon be confirmed.

Also, more information about this unique event will soon be posted on the China Conservatory website, which I will link to here when it becomes available.

Below are some relevant links.

Program pages from IMILF-Beijing, September 2014: https://app.box.com/s/1f29y9j89x3i23xpvmf4

China Conservatory: http://en.ccmusic.edu.cn/

IMILF-Korea (cancelled/rescheduled): http://www.aec-music.eu/events/event/cancelled-2014-international-music-institutions-leaders-forum

Link to information on next IMILF (IFLMI) event:

http://sociomusicology.blogspot.no/2017/07/international-forum-for-leadership-of.html

7/14/14

Sociology of Music in Japan

It is exciting to now be participating in the XVIII World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, Japan, following some teaching for Yokohama National University. Yokohama is a fascinating city that served as a center of westernization from the mid-nineteenth century onward, and it continues to be a globally significant hub of innovation (see above photo of the city skyline, which I took yesterday). This conference, with the theme of “Facing an Unequal World” has more than 6,000 participants from all throughout the world, and more than 60 of the paper presentations address some aspect of music from a sociological perspective. I am serving as Chair and Discussant for a session entitled “Sociological Approaches to Western Music in Japan”. The session features two quite interesting papers by Japanese scholars: Musicology in Post-War Japan: German Influence and Social Context, by Naomi MIYAMOTO, and “Japanese” Approaches to the Music of Frédéric Chopin, by Yasuko SHIBATA.

UPDATE: Due to a program change, I also served as Chair of a session on Sociology of Art in Japan:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/webprogram/Session4114.html

In Yokohama, I have also been meeting with various academic presses that seem very interested in possibilities for several future books that I am either already writing or intend to produce. I am especially eager to secure a contract for the book I am currently editing, Translation, Education, and Innovation: Proceedings of the 25^th Anniversary Conference of the Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies.

Who will publish it, and what about the other books I am developing?: Brill, Springer, Palgrave-Macmillan, Routledge? We will see . . .

Links for more information:

https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/webprogram/Session4110.html

http://www.amazon.com/David-G.-Hebert/e/B006L2XYMM

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).