Sociomusicology: Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts

10/8/26

Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts

Each year, more than 100 PhD students from universities around the world come to Bergen, Norway for its Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS), where during a brief residency they gain new perspectives with interdisciplinary insights.

The theme of the 2027 BSRS is Moral Economies, and I look forward to teaching its PhD course Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts.

More information will be posted here as the BSRS application process is formally announced (typically by January), but for now, HERE is a link to a previous version of this BSRS course. We anticipate strong interest in this course and look forward to seeing who is accepted and what develops from our collaborations.

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