It is a pleasure to soon be giving my first presentation for the Pan-African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE, Zambia, July 2021). It is part of a symposium convened by Marie McCarthy called Sounding the Past, Giving Voice to the Future: Oral History and Its Place in Music Education Research.
The first monograph of our book
series will be published in the next few weeks.
We are happy to announce
Ambigay Yudkoff’s book Activism
through Music During the Apartheid Era and Beyond: When Voices Meet, which
is volume 1 of Deep
Soundings: The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology. Other volumes are coming soon.
Professor Carol Ann Muller (University of Pennsylvania) writes the
following about this unique book:
Ambigay Yudkoff has written a
beautiful account of the musical activism of South African born music therapist
and multilingual singer Sharon Katz. In the wake of the release of political
prisoner Nelson Mandela and others in 1990, Katz created a "Peace Train,"
a large South African interracial youth choir for purposes of racial and
cultural reconciliation, collaboration between strangers, who literally
traveled South Africa and the United States in a train. This is not a
conventional story about music and politics but far more about the need for
social and emotional healing through singing together in the post-apartheid
era. It is one of a few books on musical activism as a mode of social
reparation and intercultural understanding that has value well beyond 1990s
South Africa.
Here are links to two
very recent articles on websites of higher education institutions in Bergen.
1.
Article
about project to develop PhD program in music education in Uganda: https://www.hvl.no/aktuelt/utviklar-det-forste-doktorgradsprogrammet-innan-musikkpedagogikk-i-det-austlege-afrika/
2.
Article
about keynote speech by Yale University Vice President on
internationalization of higher education: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/145419/developing-yales-global-strategy-and-scientific-priorities
Click HERE for the speech by Prof. Pericles Lewis.
[Also, a link to my video from Grieg Research School (June 2021) on doctoral supervision in music, and a recent media project on music and African-American identity]
This publication was
developed in collaboration with doctoral students from several countries who
were enrolled in 2020 in the new course PhD911:
Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy. We are also developing a
book which will include additional chapters and extended discussion.
It is inspiring to see
what these young scholars have accomplished, and their work promises to have enduring value.
The course will be offered again soon, in Autumn, 2021 (October 11-22). It is taught entirely online, in intensive format, and available to PhD students anywhere in the world for transferable European higher education credits (5 ECTS).
Dear David Hebert and Mikolaj Rykowski,
I’m pleased to say that we are planning to release a paperback version of your book Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age (ISBN: 9781527503939).
(...)
Sales of the hardback and academic eBook versions of Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age have been quite encouraging, and we believe we now have a good opportunity to issue a soft cover edition. This is something we do on occasion, for only about 1 in 10 of our published titles – those we feel might have a wider appeal. We would like to try a paperback version of your book at a lower price of £35.99.
This book has indeed sold well and received positive reviews. We are thankful that Cambridge Scholars has identified the book (which is available now in over 600 libraries plus private collections) as selling within roughly the top 10% of their titles, and the press will soon release an affordable 2021 paperback version.
Below are quotations from sample reviews:
"One of the major strengths of Music Glocalization is that it clarifies and explains the varied literature circulating around the key word--music glocalization--to broaden our understanding and analysis of a wide variety of music issues. To summarize, this is an indispensable book, and I highly recommend Music Globalization for researchers, students, and libraries with a strong interest in the processes of globalization and localization, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, cultural sociology, sociology, and communication. It will also be of great interest to those in the field of international, transnational, and cosmopolitan studies." - Professor Wai-Chung Ho, Hong-Kong Baptist University (Cambridge Scholars blog).Here
is a link for more information about the book:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0393-9
Here
is a link for the press:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/
via GIPHY [Globe GIF, open-access, retrieved from: http://gph.is/2cydVrn]
An exciting schedule of
lectures has been assembled for our upcoming PhD course Internationalizing
Higher Education, part of Bergen Summer Research School (7-17 June
2021).
Note: This is only the list of guest lecturers, and the other teaching is offered by the main course leaders in Bergen: David G.
Hebert, Robert
Gray, and Steinar
Sætre. The times indicated here are for Paris time zone.
June 9
16:30-18:30 “COIL Approach to Higher
Education Internationalization” Dr.
Stefanie Doscher (Director, Collaborative Online International Learning,
Florida International University)
June 11
11:00-12:00 “Defending Scholars at Risk:
Responses, Roles and Responsibilities of the International Academic Community”
by Dr. Tom
Parkinson (Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Higher Education,
University of Kent)
June 14
11:00-12:00 “Internationalization from the
Perspective of a European University Rector” by Professor Mircea
Dumitru (Director of Institute of Philosophy, Romanian Academy; former
Rector, University of Bucharest)
15:30-16:30 KEYNOTE for all of BSRS “Developing Yale's Global Strategy and Scientific Priorities” by Professor Pericles Lewis (Vice President for Global Strategy, Yale University)
June
15
11:00-12:00 “The Emergence and
Institutionalization of New Academic Fields in International Higher Education”
by Dr. Tom
Parkinson (Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Higher Education,
University of Kent).
Here is a link for more information about this unique course: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/138795/internationalising-higher-education
It is a pleasure to announce that Nordplus just today confirmed it is providing new funding for an intensive Master course as part of the Nordic Network for Music Education’s 3-Year project Digital Competence and Digitized Musical Heritage.
The NNME
has been supporting the professionalization of music teaching across the Nordic
and Baltic countries for nearly a quarter-century, and its upcoming course is
called “Music Learning with Digital Technologies”, hosted by Prof. Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir and colleagues
at University of Iceland in Autumn, 2021.
In 2021,
the NNME
expanded to include 18 member institutions, comprising each of the major postgraduate
music teacher education programs in the 8 countries of Northern Europe: Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland.
Shown above is a public domain map of Iceland, where our next intensive course will be held.
Below are links to some videos recently developed in connection with the NNME:
-Music programs at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: https://youtu.be/5l0TmLHIosA
-Introduction
to NNME’s COIL-MOOC project: https://youtu.be/o3i9N-nWwzo
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