Sociomusicology: Keynote on Music Diplomacy in China

4/28/26

Keynote on Music Diplomacy in China

I look forward to giving a keynote speech soon for the International Symposium on Global Dialogue, Inheritance and Innovation of Anhui Traditional Music (Chuzhou University, China). My speech is titled “Approaches to Traditional Music in Cultural Diplomacy”.

Chuzhou, in Anhui province, has a population of around 7 million, and famous people from this city include Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398), who was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty.

Pictured here is Mt. Huangshan, a renowned landmark from Anhui province.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huangshan_pic_4.jpg

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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).