Sociomusicology: Plans for Summer 2022

3/9/22

Plans for Summer 2022

In summer 2022, I look forward to serving as keynote speaker for China’s national music education conference, to be held in Chengdu at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. My presentation will be on new developments in the field of international research.

It is also a pleasure to have been invited to serve as the international professor on the Doctoral Defense Board for two PhD students in Lithuania at Vytautas Magnus University:

-Youdi Sun. Adjusting to Cultural Differences in Teaching and Learning: The Case Study of Chinese Postgraduate Students in Lithuania.

-Yuqing Yang. Boundary Crossing: The Sociocultural Integration Experience of Chinese International Students in Lithuania.

It is exciting to see what this new generation of researchers is producing in the growing field of international education. Upon evaluating these new PhD degrees from Lithuania in June, I will have served on doctoral committees for universities in 12 countries in the fields of international education, musicology, and music education. It is certainly fascinating to experience diverse approaches to doctoral studies in different locations and academic fields, and to take part in developing new doctoral programs. I have also greatly enjoyed doing some teaching for the university-wide professional development course on Doctoral Supervision at University of Bergen across recent years, and have been developing some writings on issues in doctoral supervision.

This summer we eagerly look forward to offering the new PhD course Global Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts at Bergen Summer Research School, 2022. It is inspiring to be co-leading this course with geography professor Erlend Eidsvik, and we have planned for some excellent guest lecturers, including keynote speaker Emily Achieng’ Akuno, as well as distinguished scholars Lesley Le Grange and Suriamurthee Maistry, a special dance presentation by Tara Pandeya, and much more. There were many strong applicants, and we are pleased to see that this course will include around 20 PhD students from several different countries, and we look forward to some lively discussions.

Chengdu image attribution: 书剑飘零

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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.