College of Fine Arts
Assistant Professor of Music
Associate Editor, International Journal of Education and the Arts, and Research in New Zealand Performing Arts

David Hebert is an ethnomusicologist and comparative educationist with specializations in Japan and New Zealand. He has published in a dozen different peer-reviewed journals and taught internationally for Moscow State University, Tokyo Gakugei University, and Te Wananga O Aotearoa. His cross-cultural research interests include musical creativity, transculturation, nationalism, competition, and educational policy. Professor Hebert‘s forthcoming book Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools (Springer/Kluwer) is an ethnography among Japanese bands in the world’s largest music competition.

For more information see: http://people.bu.edu/72648

Courses:

MU 827 Special Topics in Musicology: Hybridity and Transculturation (Spring 2008)
[Cross-credited for students in College of Arts and Sciences]