Sociomusicology: May 2018

5/4/18

Music Conference in Zhejiang

The Fourth International Forum for Leadership of Music Institutions (IFLMI) will be held in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China in mid-May, 2018. Several notable music professors from around the world will be attending as invited speakers.

UPDATE (16 May 2018): There have been some cancellations, but here is a link to the final program for this event:

https://app.box.com/s/ocz9gr96jq1zlygp8aa7yvyq2ox84uc3

It has been a pleasure to be part of the organizing committee. I will give a presentation on the Nordic Network for Music Education, and also discuss the process of MOOC development for the Open Global Music Academy, which is to be built upon Huaxia Yuefu, an online consortium of 200 music institutions in China.

Below is an institutional profile of the School of Music at Zhejiang Normal University, which is likely to develop an excellent international network through this unique event.

Zhejiang Normal University, School of Music

Founded in 1985, the Music School of Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) is one of the earliest higher music education institutions in the province. Currently we have 72 faculty members, which including 10 professors, 27 associate professors, 23 lecturers and 12 staffs. Most of our faculty members held doctoral and master degrees, one was selected to “the Excellent Talent of the New Century by the Education Ministry Plan,” three were selected to the “151 Talent Project of the New Century,” three were selected as the provincial young leaders of the higher education system.

Currently the Music School has 700 undergraduate students and 120 graduate students. We offer three bachelor programs: Musicology, Music Performance and Dancing. We also offer first rank Master Program in Music and Dancing; recruit both EDM and MFA students in graduate level.

The ZJNU music education building has 13,000 m²and provides plenty space for Music School for our study, research, teaching and learning. Our music library has more than 60 thousand publication volumes. Up to now, more than 2,000 school music teachers have achieved their academic degrees from our school.

We are looking for more overseas music education institutions for international cooperation. We sincerely welcome foreign universities or music colleges to create connections and cooperative relationships to us.

Address: 688 Yingbin Ave., Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province 321004, P.R. China

Tel: (+86) 579-8228 2416

Website: http://yy.zjnu.edu.cn

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).