Sociomusicology: Music Law Postdoc and other Grants

2/16/25

Music Law Postdoc and other Grants

It is a great pleasure to announce that Judge Karan Choudhary, PhD, has been awarded a 2-year fellowship from the EU’s MSCA postdoctoral program to join the GAME research group in Bergen, Norway. He will be traveling from India, where he has worked as a judge across recent years. Karan's project is titled “Legal Challenges posed by AI Generated Music: A Comparative study of Copyright Laws of China, India, Norway, USA and UK, to develop a suitable Global Legal Framework specifically for AI Generated Music (Music Law)”.

Most of the 2-year postdoctoral appointment (2025-2027) will be spent working with me in Norway, but Karan will also have a residency with Prof. Robert Burrell at Oxford Law School. The outcome of this postdoc will be co-authored journal articles and a new book on the implications of AI for music law. We are very grateful to the European Commission for its generous support of this project.

The GAME research group also had another outstanding candidate for the EU’s MSCA postdoctoral fellowship this year, and that application scored quite highly but was placed on the waiting list. We remain hopeful that project too might receive funding soon for an important study that explores the impact of climate change on music and dance heritage in southern Africa.

GAME also continues to await the results of a Horizon Europe application on political expression in minority musics that scored very highly and was placed on a waiting list, as well as an application to the Norwegian government to establish a new AI research center in Bergen (for which I co-lead a work package in the field of Higher Education). Additionally, we are leading a new Horizon Europe application on the theme of culture virtualization.

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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).