Sociomusicology: Decolonization of Academia in Norway

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Decolonization of Academia in Norway

It was a great pleasure to participate in a recent panel discussion on Decolonization of Academia with two brilliant colleagues based in Bergen, Anwesha Dutta and Wesley Maraire, moderated by Maria Lie Jordheim, vice president of the SAIH organization.

It is exciting to see growing interest and support for decolonization among university students in Norway, even while there is a very slow response, and stubborn resistance, from some professors and university management.

Here is a link to a relevant article about decolonization and SAIH: https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/3903

Here are links to a few of my recent publications related to decolonization:

Ways to decolonize philosophy of education:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0139-5

Why university studies (in music) need to be decolonized:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02557614241281992

Ways of decolonizing approaches to cultural diplomacy and music research:

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793642929/Ethnomusicology-and-Cultural-Diplomacy

Ways of decolonizing intercultural collaborative arts projects:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/shared-listenings/42CBDD3A9729681176DBB7502796D56A

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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).