Sociomusicology: Ethnomusicology Conference, Indiana 2026

11/12/26

Ethnomusicology Conference, Indiana 2026

It was a pleasure to attend the recent Society for Ethnomusicology conference at Indiana University (USA), where I also very much enjoyed meeting some of the most influential scholars in the field of sound archiving. I won’t mention names here, but a photo is attached below.

At the SEM conference, I had multiple activities: (1) led the Historical Ethnomusicology Section meeting, (2) gave a brief report on that Section to the SEM Council, (3) presented a paper on how philosophy of education can better guide the teaching of world music, and (4) met with leaders of IU’s world-renowned sound archives to explore collaboration, especially pertaining to our plans to develop a MUSIC Center of Research Excellence and related major grant applications in Norway.

We also made further progress on planning a promising online symposium for public outreach, Rethinking Comparative Musicology, that had been sidelined a few times due to coordination difficulties. I will announce details on that here soon.

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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), Visiting Professor with UCSI University (Malaysia), and Honorary Professor 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).