Sociomusicology: Hong Kong Summer School 2025

7/27/25

Hong Kong Summer School 2025

Five PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are now accompanying me to participate in the 2025 International Postgraduate Roundtable cum Summer School (IPRRFSS) hosted by the Graduate School, Education University of Hong Kong.

Established in 2011, the IPRRFSS offers an array of interdisciplinary research presentations in various formats. This is my second time to participate.

The 2025 theme is “Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Exploring Mind, Language and Environment for a Sustainable Future” and keynote speakers include psychologist Tatia Lee, linguist Xiaofei Lu, social psychologist Ying-yi Hong, educationist Marcus Pietsch, and other renowned scholars. I will be performing some music for the event's Gala Dinner along with EdUHK pianist Philbert Li (links to some of our previous performances are HERE and HERE).

We look forward to seeing the outcomes from this exciting event which is likely to inspire the young scholars who come to IPRRFSS from many different countries.

Below is a video from the 2024 IPRRFSS …

Image source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong#/media/File:Kowloon_Panorama_by_Ryan_Cheng_2010.jpg

More recordings are available HERE.

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Welcome to Sociomusicology

For nearly 20 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 both University of the Faroe Islands and Kyambogo University (Uganda), 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:21), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).