Sociomusicology: Summer 2023

8/17/23

Summer 2023

It was a pleasure to participate in various professional activities during part of this summer, and also to have an enjoyable vacation with family in the Seattle area.

I was happy to find that many PhD students developed excellent final papers as the third cohort of our course PhD911 Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy, which has already led to publication of the book Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education (developed from the first and second cohorts) and will likely produce more publications in the coming years. Click HERE to access a review of our book in the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

I enjoyed giving some guest lectures for various universities in China, including the Education University of Hong Kong (on AI and Artistic Creativity in Higher Education), Beijing Language and Culture University (on World Music Performance), and for law students at China University of Political Science and Law (on International Arts Policy). We also had quite productive meetings in Hong Kong for further planning and expansion of the Global Competence Partnership.

Later, I had a nice meeting with mentor and doctoral supervisor Patricia Shehan Campbell in Seattle, who has recently retired but remains quite active in teaching, research, and projects.

Publications have also been proceeding well. Our monograph on intercultural music collaboration is nearly published, Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Musicianship and Research (Cambridge University Press). The complete manuscript of Volume IV of our series Deep Soundings: The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology (an ethnomusicological study of European composer Scharwenka) has been reviewed and is now in revision.

The Board meeting of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Helsinki was quite successful, with great collaboration as we prepared for the ISME 2024 World Conference in Finland. As Chair of ISME's History Standing Committee, my focus at this meeting was in three areas: ways of strengthening historical research in this field globally, supporting development of a more robust international history of the organization, and improving all publications associated with ISME. I gave two papers and chaired a session at the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER) in Seoul, Korea, where there were many impressive presentations.

Finally, I met a colleague in Singapore, Chee Hoo Lum, for further development of a publication project before returning to Europe. Unfortunately, I caught Covid at some point on my way back to Norway, and had to rest recently, causing missed deadlines for some promising new projects. Quite frustrating, but hopefully I can fully recover soon and it will work out next time!

A few photos from summer activities are posted here:

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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).