Sociomusicology: April 2021

4/29/21

Digitized Musical Heritage Course

It is a pleasure to announce that Nordplus just today confirmed it is providing new funding for an intensive Master course as part of the Nordic Network for Music Education’s 3-Year project Digital Competence and Digitized Musical Heritage.

The NNME has been supporting the professionalization of music teaching across the Nordic and Baltic countries for nearly a quarter-century, and its upcoming course is called “Music Learning with Digital Technologies”, hosted by Prof. Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir and colleagues at University of Iceland in Autumn, 2021.

In 2021, the NNME expanded to include 18 member institutions, comprising each of the major postgraduate music teacher education programs in the 8 countries of Northern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland.

Shown above is a public domain map of Iceland, where our next intensive course will be held.

Below are links to some videos recently developed in connection with the NNME:

-Music programs at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: https://youtu.be/5l0TmLHIosA

-Introduction to NNME’s COIL-MOOC project: https://youtu.be/o3i9N-nWwzo

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).