Sociomusicology: World Conference in Helsinki

7/22/24

World Conference in Helsinki

It is a pleasure to return to Helsinki, Finland—where I worked as a Professor more than 10 years ago—to participate in the world conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in July/August 2024.

I currently serve on the Board of ISME and I am Chair of its History Standing Committee, so there are many activities at this world conference. Also, two of my current PhD students from Scandinavia are giving presentations, but an additional one (PhD student from Uganda) recently had to withdrawal and postpone their participation until next time.

In the late morning on Monday, the History Standing Committee (HSC) hosts an open session called “Meet the Mentors” which is intended to offer helpful suggestions to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who are beginning to develop research projects on any historical topics. We have already confirmed participants are coming from the Americas, Europe, and East Asia.

On Monday afternoon, I chair an HSC symposium on intercultural issues in historical studies, with participants presenting papers on historical topics in music education in Japan (I collaborate here with Koji Matsunobu), Germany (Alexandra Kertz-Welzel), Australia (Malcolm Cole), and the Faroe Islands (my PhD student Knut Eysturstein).

On Tuesday I give a presentation as part of a symposium on AI and philosophy of music education with several well-known researchers, such as Jiaxing Xie, Pamela Burnard, Alex Ruthmann, and Victor Fung.

I have also been asked to participate in the ISME Publications Committee meeting on Wednesday afternoon with Gwen Moore.

On Thursday I will also be a Discussant for a symposium on preliminary outcomes from the Nordic Singing Maps project, led by David Thorarinn Johnson.

The HSC also has our meet & greet session and business meeting later that day.

Finally, on Friday a presentation with my PhD student Marianne Jakobsen on Nordic approaches to advanced orchestral instrument pedagogy comes at the very end of the conference.

It will be exciting to reconnect with colleagues from around the world and to learn about the very latest developments in our field.

Link for Chinese description of ISME activities:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gymAzjq5UNUJPcPzqVcNVA

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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:30), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).