Sociomusicology: Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education

7/25/24

Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education

A new book Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education has been published that promises to stimulate important discussions about how the methodology of artistic research can strengthen higher music education. Music performance pedagogy has long needed more systematic approaches, and I have been arguing in favor of artistic research for many years, and mentored some artistic research dissertations at Sibelius Academy more than a decade ago, including Ari Pouitianen’s study Stringprovisation.

Higher education is often resistant to change, but the book Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education shows promising innovations that will be relevant to music lecturers and professors in many different institutions.

Some of the authors of Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education are affiliated with my institution in western Norway, including Stefan Ostersjo, who was our visiting professor across recent years, and cognitive musicologist Odd Turleiv Furnes. Click HERE to access another recent co-authored book that combines the fields of ethnomusicology and artistic research, and demonstrates how transcultural approaches can fit in higher education.

AND, click HERE to access Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education, which is published in open-access format, freely available to anyone curious to read it.

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Welcome to Sociomusicology

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).