Sociomusicology: November 2017

11/30/17

Speeches in East Asia and Eastern Europe

Over the next few months I will have keynote speeches for the national music education conferences in both Poland and Estonia, as well as lectures for some universities in East Asia: China Conservatory (Beijing), Tokyo University, Yokohama National University, and others. More information will be posted here shortly.

11/8/17

Debut Recital and Recording / Book Releases

Soon I will be giving my first full-length solo recital in Norway as a classical singer, along with an excellent Bergen-based pianist, Mai Goto. The announcement is shown above (Click HERE to download the announcement, HERE for the recital program, and HERE for the complete Grieg Research School program). We are also doing a recording session during the dates around the recital (end of November, 2017), and we intend to produce a full album of classical music and organize a professional recital tour (along with book-release lectures) for venues in Europe, North America and East Asia.

Here are the books I will publish in 2018:

**Hebert, D. G. (Ed.), (2018, in press). International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies. Dordrecht: Springer [Contains 21 chapters divided into five parts: Translational Issues in Literature, Analyses of Korean and Japanese Languages, Language Education, Innovation and New Perspectives on Culture, and The Arts in Innovative Societies.]

**Hebert, D. G. & Rykowski, M. (Eds.), (2018, in press). Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Contributed chapters describe music in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech, Finland, Norway, Germany, Italy, the UK, Ireland, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Australia, the US, Syria, and Japan. Entire manuscript fully revised and submitted for publication.]

**Hebert, D. G. & Hauge, T. B. (Eds.), (forthcoming, 2018). Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe. (Routledge / Taylor & Francis) [Edited book with 18+ contributors representing each Nordic and Baltic nation. All contributed chapters drafted and revised. Completion of Conclusion chapter and final editorial revisions now in progress for submission in December, 2017].

Future books will be affiliated with our new series for Rowman & Littlefield, The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings, and a co-authored book is also under development entitled A Global View of Music Education, for publication in Chinese by Shanghai Education Press.

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).