Sociomusicology: February 2017

2/8/17

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe

[Update, March 1, 2018: Here is a link to the book listing on the Routledge website: https://www.routledge.com/Advancing-Music-Education-in-Northern-Europe/Hebert-Hauge/p/book/9781138486263]

A unique book is now nearing completion that will show how music education has evolved with innovative approaches across recent decades in the Nordic and Baltic countries. This is a major outcome of projects affiliated with the Nordic Network for Music Education.

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe: Twenty Years of the Nordic Network for Music Education (forthcoming, Routledge/Taylor&Francis) is edited by David Hebert and Torunn Bakken Hauge, and we now have several outstanding contributing authors, including Kristi Kiilu (Estonia), Mara Marnauza (Latvia), Jolanta Lasauskiene (Lithuania), Marja Heimonen (Finland), Tiri Bergesen Schei (Norway), Geir Johansen (Norway), Eva Saether (Sweden), Cecilia Ferm-Almqvist (Sweden), Lars Brinck (Denmark), Helga Rut Gudmondsdottir (Iceland), and many more.

UPDATE (January 28, 2018) - Below is the Table of Contents for our book:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe
Torunn Bakken Hauge & David G. Hebert

Master seminars in music education across eighteen years: Inclusion, equality and democracy as lived experience
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist

Reflections on research collaborations: A call for Nordic research on music education, sustainability, and democracy
Eva Sæther & Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg

Musical performance and tacit self-censorship
Tiri Bergesen Schei

Music, universality and globalization: Some challenges for music education in the decades to come
Geir Johansen

An Icelandic perspective on the Nordic music education community
Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir

Musician and teacher: Higher popular music education in a Danish perspective
Lars Brinck

Advancing music education via Nordic cooperation: Equity and equality as central concepts in Finland
Marja Heimonen & David G. Hebert

Bridging the past, present and future in Estonian music education: Development of the music content in National Curricula, 1991-2016
Anu Sepp, Urve Läänemets & Kristi Kiilu

A paradigm shift in Latvian music teacher education: A selection of research experience in the period, 2008 – 2017
Mara Marnauza & Sanita Madalane

Music teacher education challenges: National and international perspectives in Lithuania
Jolanta Lasauskiene

Emotional Imitation Method in the Context of Lithuanian Music Education
Lolita Navickiene, Asta Rauduvaite, Giedre Gabnyte, David G. Hebert

Integrated Learning of Music and Science: Reception of Björk’s Biophilia Project in the Nordic Countries
Bård Husby and David G. Hebert

Conclusion: Learning from Two Decades of Music Education Leadership
David G. Hebert & Torunn Bakken Hauge

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).