Sociomusicology: Music PhD students in Bergen

7/5/24

Music PhD students in Bergen

I am pleased to report that we will soon have two PhD students in residence with the GAME research group in Bergen and a third at University of Bergen who collaborates closely with us.

These are Erisa Walubo, who is part of the CABUTE project in Uganda, Kristian Tverli Iversen, a Norwegian music teacher who has just been accepted into our education PhD program, and Bruno Tagliasacchi Masia, a percussionist doing an artistic research PhD at University of Bergen.

Erisa is now completing the data collection for his PhD, which is on Indigenous music and dance traditions of the Basoga region of Uganda, and how they may be successfully introduced into school music programs.

Kristian will be researching the effectiveness of various ways of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into music education, and will participate in the Global Competence Partnership project in collaboration with partners in Hong Kong.

Bruno is embarking on a exploratory study of how various approaches to the notion of silence can guide creative experimentation in music.

More information will be posted here as their projects proceed further.

GAME is already frequently visited by two excellent doctoral students based elsewhere in Scandinavia: Marianne Jakobsen (Copenhagen) and Knut Eysturstein (Faroe Islands), and we are developing a great synergy across the group.

GAME will also host the visits of several accomplished professors in Autumn 2024, including Jiaxing Xie, Koji Matsunobu, and Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir.

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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).