David G. Hebert

David G. Hebert, Ph.D., is a tenured full Professor of Music with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, as well as Honorary Professor with the Education University of Hong Kong and Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and Kyambogo University (Uganda). He is an Executive Committee and Board Member of the International Society for Music Education and Chair-Elect of the SEM Historical Ethnomusicology Section. He also manages the state-funded Nordic Network for Music Education, which coordinates activities across Nordic and Baltic states. He is a frequent keynote speaker and editorial board member of several research journals. An editor or author of 12 books, he has served on doctoral committees for universities in 17 countries and has grant funding for co-development of new doctoral programs in China and in Uganda.

A widely cited international-comparative scholar, he has taught for universities and conducted research on each inhabited continent. Prof. Hebert is Senior Editor of the ISME Routledge Book Series and Deep Soundings: Critical Studies in Historical Ethnomusicology (Bloomsbury). Prof. Hebert's books include Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools (Springer, 2012), Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology (co-edited with Jonathan McCollum, Lexington Books, 2014), Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education (co-edited with Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Routledge, 2016), International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies (Springer, 2018), Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age (co-edited with Mikolaj Rykowski, Cambridge Scholars, 2018), Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe (co-edited with Torunn Bakken Hauge, Routledge, 2019), World Music Pedagogy VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education (co-authored with William Coppola and Patricia Shehan Campbell, Routledge, 2020), Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (co-edited with Jonathan McCollum, Bloomsbury, 2022), Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Musicianship and Research (co-authored with Stefan Ostersjo, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, and Henrik Frisk, Cambridge University Press, 2023), Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education (Springer, 2023), Perspectives on Music, Education and Diversity (co-edited with Chee Hoo Lum, Springer, 2025) and A New Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI (co-authored with Jiaxing Xie, Routledge, 2026).

He has been a Keynote Lecturer for conferences in Europe (Norway, Poland, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden), Asia (Uzbekistan, China, Thailand, Vietnam), and Africa (Tanzania, Uganda), and Chair of arts sessions at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology (Japan). Prof. Hebert has received grants from several state governments for research projects. In addition to academic research, he also works as a singer, trumpeter, conductor, and songwriter.