Sociomusicology: International History of Music Education

8/9/21

International History of Music Education

This week one of my recent conference speeches was promoted through a series of profiles of Music Education Leaders developed by Dr. Yang Yang at Education University of Hong Kong. Pictured here is an excerpt. In this speech I advocate for more local oral history studies in the field of music education in order to generate broader appreciation of musical heritage.

Click HERE to access the original version on the Chinese WeChat platform, which although little known in some countries has actually become the world’s most popular app, with over 1 billion users. Although mostly in Chinese, if one scrolls down, an English language version is also available on the website.

It is encouraging to see that these ideas are getting some attention, and I hope more of the history of diverse forms of music teaching and learning worldwide might be meaningfully documented as a result. This also fits what we are seeking to accomplish though the History Standing Committee of the International Society for Music Education, and through the field of historical ethnomusicology with the Deep Soundings book series on Rowman & Littlefield press.

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Welcome to Sociomusicology

For a decade (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 a Visiting Professor in Sweden with the Malmo Academy of Music (Lund University), 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:28), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).