Sociomusicology: March 2023

3/22/23

Comparison and Decoloniality

It is a pleasure to announce that our book Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education has just been published, and is now available as a download via SpringerLink.

Here is a link to the website for that: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0139-5

This book is designed to stimulate alternative ways of understanding the nature and value of education based on historically-informed awareness of ideas from parts of the world that experienced colonization.

3/9/23

Wonderment of Arts in a Fragile World

I look forward to giving a keynote speech soon for the Arts Education Symposium at the Technical University of Kenya. My title is Rediscovering the Wonderment of Arts in a Fragile World, and it will address some of the main themes and lessons learned from some recent research and development projects.

Below is a poster for this event, and here is a link for more information about the symposium: https://tukenya.ac.ke/eap-symposium

Kenya is a nation with a rich artistic heritage and innovative work in arts education fields, so it is exciting to have this opportunity to interact with scholars and educators there, but this keynote speech will necessarily be presented through videoconference.

In the speech, I will describe some concepts and examples from my latest book, a recent article, and some current and ongoing projects (e.g. CABUTE, Music Talks, NNME, MusiPæd, HK-Global Competence, Sympathetic Resonance, etc.).

Below are links to some other keynote speeches I have recently presented in Uganda and China, as well as the poster for the event in Kenya:

https://www.uib.no/en/cabute/155608/2nd-east-african-teacher-education-symposium-pandemic%C2%B4s-effect-ugandan-and-east

https://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2022/09/keynote-speech-for-national-conference.html

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).