Sociomusicology: Empowering Voices

1/7/24

Empowering Voices

It was a great pleasure to host a weekend conference in Bergen recently (mid-December 2023) for development of our application seeking EU support for the Empowering Voices project.

The Empowering Voices project assembles a consortium of skilled researchers from diverse academic fields (musicology, sociology, political science, media studies) as well as prominent musicians from an array of minority traditions in Europe and abroad, including Sami, Ukrainian, Syrian, and other Indigenous and refugee minorities. The project consortium includes universities, NGOs, and both media and arts organizations in Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand.

We are excited about this promising project and hopeful it may receive EU research funding.

We are also seeking funding to extend the Music Talks project in a new direction, which aims through technology-enhanced music activities to empower youth voices toward civic engagement in three regions of Europe: Nordic (Norway), Baltic (Latvia) and Balkan (North Macedonia) youth, ages 15-25.

The image shown above is of one of the most celebrated singers of all time, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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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).