Music Lectures in North America and Asia

I will spend much of November of this year in North America for various music lectures and presentations. First, I will chair a session on “Teaching and Learning” at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans, and also attend the Historical Ethnomusicology meeting to discuss a book I am co-editing with Jonathan McCollum entitled Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology (forthcoming, 2013, Rowman & Littlefield).

Later, I will give lectures based on my two books from 2012 (Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools and Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education) at the following universities:

-University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, United States [Click HERE for a poster]

-Pacific University, Oregon, United States [Click HERE for a poster]  

-University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 

-Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

-Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan

-Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan [Click HERE for a poster]

-China Conservatory, Beijing, China [Click HERE, HERE and HERE for photos]  

*** Meetings also scheduled with scholars at University of Tokyo, Yamanashi University, and Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, as well as commissioning editors with NTT publishing. ***

I always look forward to such opportunities to meet many other music researchers and share ideas. 

For spring of 2013, funding has been arranged for week-long residencies to teach master classes for universities in Sweden and Latvia, and plans are also at the beginning stages for a keynote lecture in Africa (Tanzania) at a conference during the summertime.  

Visit to Ole Bull Academy

The Ole Bull Academy is an institute for advanced studies of Norwegian folk music, located in Voss. It is named after the renowned Norwegian violin virtuoso Ole Bull (1810-1880), who lived in the Bergen area.

I am currently accompanying a group of music students from Bergen University College on their residency at the Ole Bull Academy. OBA is an important institution in the field of folk music, since it is estimated that more than 14,000 students have learned from its various programs. Nowadays it offers a specialized degree in traditional folk music performance.

Here is the institution’s website:

http://www.olebull.no/

Here is a link for more information about Voss, Norway:

http://www.visitvoss.no/en/About-Voss/

Bones Brass Concert, October 2012

On October 28, Bønes Brass, a lively senior brass band from the community of Bønes (in the greater Bergen area), will give a public concert.

The band has been practicing hard on a nice variety of interesting pieces, which I will conduct: Carol of the Shepherds (Philip Sparke), The Young in Heart Suite: I. Resolution, II. Reverie, and III. Recreation (by Eric Ball), Spring (Edvard Grieg), Tango Royale (including Tango by Albeniz, Gitano by Leoncavallo, and Habanera by Bizet) and jazz (Basin Street Blues), as well as a powerful hymn called Deep Harmony (by Handel Parker, arranged by Roy Newsome).  

More details, including precise time and location, will be posted here soon.

Bønes Brass:

http://bonesbrass.dinstudio.no/

DATES at 2012 Bergen Educational Conversation

It was a pleasure to sing a short concert today for an annual symposium of educational researchers in Norway, the Bergen Educational Conversation. This year, the symposium featured Professor Gert Biesta.

Our performance was with an a cappella quartet that now goes by the name “dates” derived from the first letters of its members’ names: David, Anne, Tine and Silje. The “E” of DATES is occasionally represented as well when we appear as a quintet, for which we add Egil Haugland (tenor), who is mostly known as an outstanding classical guitarist and guitar builder. Anyway, I sing the bass part, with Anne Kristine Wallace Turøy (alto), and Tine Grieg Viig (contralto), and Silje Valde Onsrud (soprano). Tine is now my doctoral student at Bergen University College, and we performed some of her fine compositions and arrangements.

Bergen Educational Conversation:

http://www.uib.no/fg/ap/prosjekter/seminarer-og-konferanser/the-4th-annual-bergen-educational-conversation-glemte-sammenhenger-utdannelse-dannelse-pedagogikk

Seminar on Musical Appropriation

The Grieg Research School (Bergen, Norway) will host a seminar entitled "Musical Appropriation: Transformations, Fusions, Ownership, Ethics " from December 4th to 7th, 2012: 

https://www.uib.no/rs/grieg/nyheter/2012/08/december-4th-december-7th-2012-grs-seminar

The registration deadline is November 5^th, and the website will soon be open for registration: 
https://www.uib.no/rs/grieg/artikler/2011/05/guidelines-for-abstracts

 

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Even Ruud - Music Therapy  (University of Oslo)

Dr Victoria Armstrong - Music Education (St Mary's University College, London)

Professor Tomi Makela - Musicology (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Professor Dave Hesmondalgh - Media and Music Industries (University of Leeds, UK).

Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Music Teaching and Learning

I am pleased to announce a session entitled Teaching and Learning at the joint conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, and Society for Music Theory:

Sunday, November 4, 2012, 8:30-10:30 am, S-Oakley [Sheraton New Orleans Hotel]

Teaching and Learning

David Hebert (Grieg Academy, Bergen University College), Chair

Presenters:

Susan Hurley-Glowa (University of Texas, Brownsville), ‘‘Brownsville Banda Sinaloense: Brass Bands, Border Towns and Bimusicality’’

Bryan Powell (Giving Open Access Learning -- GOAL-NY) and Radio Cremata (Aspira of Florida), ‘‘Democratizing Music with Free Technology’’

Vahideh Eisaei (Independent Scholar), ‘‘Cross-Media Communications: An Investigation in the Art of Teaching and Learning Persian Classical Music, Radif, via Skype and Recorded Tutorials’’

Jeffrey Cupchik (University of Rochester), ‘‘Exploring Ritual Transmission in an Interdisciplinary Context: Musical and Spiritual Apprenticeship in Tibetan Chöd Ritual Music Studies”

Seminar on Artistic Research

A seminar on artistic research (practice-based research in the arts) will be offered at room C033 of the Faculty of Education in Landas, Bergen University College, Norway (Sept. 25, 2012).

The seminar will feature Norwegian visual artist Synneva Heradstveit and Latvian jazz vocalist Inga Berzina. The program is sponsored by the Faculty’s Center for Arts, Culture, and Communication, and organized by Professors David Hebert and Aslaug Nyrnes of Bergen University College. Contact either organizer if you would like to participate.

Program:
 
08:30-09:30- Synneva Heradstveit: Exhibition and text (this part will be in Norwegian)
09:30-09:45- Coffee break
09:45-10:10- David Hebert - Approaches to artistic research
10:10-10:30- Dr Inga Berzina - Latvian leading jazz vocalist on artistic development
10:30-11:00- Discussion

Related links:

http://www.hib.no/senter/sekkk/english.asp

http://www.hib.no/aktuelt/nyheter/2012/08/kunstutstilling-heradstveit.asp

http://www.myspace.com/ingaberzina

http://www.jazzmusic.lv/2009/07/12/inga-berzina-lai-dziedatu-ir-jadzied/