Sociomusicology: Reception of Shared Listenings

2/19/26

Reception of Shared Listenings

Recently some very positive reviews have been published for our co-authored book Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Musicianship and Research (Cambridge University Press):

"Shared Listenings is more than a research text; it is a guide for the "reflective practice" that every improviser should ideally undergo. The authors demonstrate that by facing the difficulty of unfamiliar contexts and sharing critical views, one reward is a deeper understanding of one's own musical behavior. This book recommends us to look at our own practices with the same scrutiny that they have employed. It asks us to consider if our learning is extractive or if it is a genuine attempt to correct unjust imbalances of power. It invites us to develop a keener sense of how to make space for others."

- Journal of Sonic Studies.

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558982/4175093

“The many years of experience in tedious intercultural work that the book's authors possess (...) made it possible to present an unusually concrete text on how future musician education and artistic research in music could be developed with the help of shared listening (…) what could be called a handbook on the art of musical encounters across cultural boundaries” (translated from Swedish)

- Swedish Journal of Music Research

https://publicera.kb.se/stm-sjm/article/view/51283/44805

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