Sociomusicology: Conference in Estonia Funded

5/10/22

Conference in Estonia Funded

UPDATE (9 September 2022): Click here for an important update on this course, which will now be offered in a different location: https://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2022/09/nordic-network-2022-course-in-bergen.html

It is a pleasure to announce that Nordplus (Nordic governments) has just confirmed it will fund the upcoming Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) conference and Master course in Estonia (24-28 October, 2022). The course is titled Challenges of Digital Tools in Music Education (an extension of the NNME project Digital Competence and Digitized Musical Heritage) and will be hosted by The Viljandi Culture Academy, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Master students from 19 partner institutions across all eight Nordic and Baltic countries can participate in the course’s online activities, and selected students will receive a travel grant covering all expenses to participate in person at the course site in beautiful Viljandi, Estonia.

An inspiring documentary film was made about last year’s NNME course in Iceland, and a recent book shows what NNME has achieved across its 25 years of professionalizing music education in the NB8 countries. Further information will be available soon on the website of the Nordic Network for Music Education.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljandi#/media/File:Viljandi_panoramic.jpg

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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).