Sociomusicology: Empowering Voices in Aotearoa

10/30/24

Empowering Voices in Aotearoa

It is a pleasure to be returning to Aotearoa New Zealand (where I worked as Head of Music for a Maori college many years ago) to give a presentation in cooperation with Sally Jane Norman, David Thorarinn Johnson, Gene Lai, and Christidis Ioannis at the 48^th ICTMD World Conference 2025. Our Empowering Voices panel presentation is related to a large project on democracy and minority music traditions for which we have sought funding from the EU.

The event where we will present our ideas is organized by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, or ICTMD, which is “a scholarly organization which aims to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation, and dissemination of music and dance of all countries (…) As a non-governmental organization in formal consultative relations with UNESCO and by means of its wide international representation and the activities of its Study Groups, the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance acts as a bond among peoples of different cultures and thus contributes to the peace of humankind.”

We look forward to sharing our research and learning what others are doing to support music and dance traditions worldwide.

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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).