Sociomusicology: October 2016

10/24/16

Tenth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education

Call for Papers

The organizing committee of the 10th biennial International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education and the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance are pleased to announce a call for papers. We welcome proposals from a broad range of perspectives, related to sociology and music education. Colleagues are invited to submit individual papers (twenty minutes, plus five minutes for discussion) or panels of three to five presenters (50 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion).

Abstracts should be 300-350 words in length, and should be accompanied by a 150-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to gareth.smith@icmp.ac.uk, including full name/s and institutional affiliation/s. The closing date for submissions is 1 December 2016. All submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee: Dr Clare Hall, Dr David Hebert, Dr Danielle Sirek and Dr Gareth Dylan Smith. All presenters will be notified of acceptance by 1 January 2017. The Symposium will be held at the ICMP’s London campus, 11-14 June 2017.

Registration, and information regarding travel, accommodation and scheduling, will be available (from spring 2017) via: http://www.icmp.ac.uk/issme2017

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education will publish a special Sociology of Music Education issue in early 2018, including articles based on ISSME 2017 presentations, and guest edited by Gareth Dylan Smith and Clare Hall. Submissions should meet ACT standards (http://act.maydaygroup.org/submissions/) and will be subject to double-blind peer review. Submissions to the guest editors will be due by September 1, 2017.

Disruption and Recovery

Life can be full of difficult surprises, but the resolute accept, recover, and press on. It is a relief for my life to finally be back to normal after an incredibly complicated year, and to now be returning to various artistic and scholarly endeavors. Following the worst illness of my life (pneumonia caught in Brazil in the autumn), I had to finish resolving a complicated divorce in the spring, which in the summer was followed by the worst injury of my life: a concussion resulting in months of Post Concussive Syndrome. Displayed here is the last photo I took before the debilitating head injury: a peaceful image of wind chimes above Big Sur, California that returned many times as I was recuperating from the concussion. I am thankful to now be very healthy and focused, ready to complete all projects that were unavoidably delayed, and able to take on new projects with confidence in 2017.

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).