Sociomusicology: September 2021

9/22/21

Hong Kong Appointment and Doctoral Supervision

It was a great pleasure to officially learn today that I have been re-appointed as Honorary Professor with the Education University of Hong Kong, where I have also served as external evaluator of the creative arts doctoral program. EdUHK is ranked in the world’s top 10 in the field of education. In creative arts there are several excellent colleagues, including Bo-wah Leung, Koji Matsunobu, Yang Yang and Matthew Thibeault.

Recently I also learned that I have once again been invited to teach on a panel for University of Bergen’s university-wide course on doctoral supervision for its lecturers and professors. Click HERE for more about my own approach to doctoral supervision as well as my research and teaching in the field of doctoral supervision.

9/1/21

Music Learning Technology in Reykjavik

The 2021 Master course/conference of the Nordic Network for Music Education “Music Learning with Digital Technologies” is scheduled for early November in Reykjavik, Iceland. Here is the announcement, which as of yesterday indicates this event will be both in person for those who can travel to Iceland and online for those who cannot: https://sites.google.com/view/nnme-2021/home

This Nordplus-sponsored course is hosted by Adam Switala and Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir, and will likely include participants from the major music teacher education institutions in all eight Nordic and Baltic countries. We will have many presentations of ongoing Master student thesis projects as well as keynote speakers and various activities. I look forward to presenting some ongoing NNME projects, including COIL collaborations between classes on different continents and video interviews with both Nordic and global leaders in the field.

Image: "Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA"

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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).

Publications and Activities

Recent Books: * Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools (2012, Springer), *Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology (2014, Lexington) * Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education (2016, Routledge) * International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies (2018, Springer), *Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age (2018, Cambridge Scholars),*Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe (2019, Routledge), *Teaching World Music in Higher Education (2020, Routledge), *Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (2022, Rowman & Littlefield), *Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Musicianship and Research (2023, Cambridge University Press), *Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education (2023, Springer). *Perspectives on Music, Education, and Diversity (2024, in press, Springer). *A Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI: Dialogue Between Chinese and Western Perspectives (2025, forthcoming, Routledge).

Articles in 35 different professional journals and chapters in 10 other books.

Full List of Publications: http://sociomusicology-icom.blogspot.no/

Keynote Speaker - Across recent years, Professor Hebert has had keynote speeches in Poland, Germany, Uzbekistan, China, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Tanzania, and Thailand, and chaired two sessions at ISA-Japan.

Singing Opera & Art Songs / Reviews of My Books.