Peter J. Hoesing Bucksbaum Center for the Arts skype: peterhoesing 1108 Park St kigozi@peterhoesing.com Grinnell, IA 50112 hoesingp@grinnell.edu EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D. in Musicology Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Dissertation: Kusamira Ritual Music and the Social Reproduction of Wellness in Uganda 2006 M.M. in Musicology, emphasis in Ethnomusicology Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 2003 B.A. in Music and Africana Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Current Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Grinnell College 2012-2016 Assistant Professor of Music History and Ethnomusicology, Claflin University 2012 Instructor in Musicology, Florida State University 2009 Director, African Music & Dance Ensemble, Florida State University 2007-2008 Adjunct Professor of Humanities in Music, Tallahassee Community College PUBLICATIONS Kusamira Ritual Music and the Social Reproduction of Wellness in Uganda, a monograph submitted and accepted for publication with a University of Illinois Press Mellon-funded book series, Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World. Birth of an Ancestor: Songs of Death and Social Responsibility in Eastern Uganda, a documentary film in progress. Excerpt available: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19838505/hoesingdocuexcerpt2.mov
Peter Hoesing 2 Refereed articles Sound and the Social Aesthetics of Religious Pluralism in Southern Uganda, Nova Religio, forthcoming (in press). Listening to African Wellness in the 21 st Century, Journal of Africana Religions 1(3), 2013: 390-393. Kusamira: Singing Rituals of Wellness in Southern Uganda, African Music 9(2), 2012: 94-127. Invited reviews Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction, by Timothy Rice, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, forthcoming, in press. Throw Down Your Heart: Béla Fleck Brings the Banjo Back to Africa, directed by Sascha Paladino, Ethnomusicology 57(2), Spring/Summer 2013: 358-361. The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts, Journal of Musicological Research 31 (2-3) Spring 2012: 210-214. Kitaffe by Damascus Kafumbe, African Music 8(3), 2009: 174-176. Other publications Eŋoma dh enswezi, dictionary entry on Kisoga ritual drums, Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, published in print and online by Oxford University Press, 2013. On the Laughter of Children and the Value of Play, Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter 43(4), September 2009: 4-5. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Patty LaBelle, (biographical encyclopedia entries) Musicians and Composers of the 20 th Century, Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009. HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS 2016 Exemplary Teacher Award, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church 2015-2016 UNCF Henry C. McBay Research Fellowship South Carolina Arts Commission Folk and Traditional Arts Grant 2015 Claflin University Global Leadership Program Grant, Uganda 2015 Claflin University Research Infrastructure Seed Grant 2014 Claflin University Center for Excellence in Teaching summer grant Claflin University Research Infrastructure Seed Grant 2013 UNCF Mellon Summer Residential Research Fellowship, Uganda 2012 Mellon Foundation, Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World book workshop 2008-2010 Research and Travel Grants, Smith Educational Trust, Uganda 2009-2010 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Uganda 2008-2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Florida State University, Uganda 2007 Krebs Foundation Summer Research Grant for Intermediate Luganda
Peter Hoesing 3 PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures Kusamira: Music and Wellness in Uganda, public lecture, College of Charleston School of the Arts, 17 February 2016. Ugandan Music and Metaphysics: How Ritual Healing Articulates Ethnicity, world music class, College of Charleston, 16 February 2016. Birth of an Ancestor: Songs of Death and Social Responsibility in Eastern Uganda, documentary film premiere and photography exhibit, Arthur Rose Museum, January 2015. The Popular and the Public in Uganda: Intellectual and Cultural Productions in the Past and Present, an international roundtable organized through the Uganda Studies Group, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 23 November 2013. Buganda Burning: Performances of Power in Kampala, for African Cities: Development Dreams and Nightmares, a history course, Professor Holly Hanson, Mount Holyoke College, 5 March 2012. Sound Medicine: the Performance of Healing in Postcolonial Uganda, Eastman School of Music Symposium Series, University of Rochester, 1 March 2012. Okutegeera ennyimba z Oluganda: Okuvvuunula nga tutaputa obuwangwa bw abantu ( Understanding Luganda Song: Translation as Ethnographic Interpretation ) Ssemasomo wa Luganda (Conference on Luganda), an inaugural conference on the use of Luganda in contemporary research, Institute of Languages, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 5 May 2010. National and International Conferences We Have to Work Together : Regulating the Performance of Healing and Civic Virtue in Modern Uganda, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, 19 November 2015. The Orangeburg Musicians Integrative Community Project: Cultural Survey Work and Undergraduate Research Infrastructure, Teaching World Music Symposium, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 9-11 April, 2015. High Stakes Healing: Repertories of Ritual vs. Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Uganda, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, 22 November 2014. Song Sharing and the Art of Responsible Research in Postcolonial Uganda, UNCF Mellon annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, 4 October 2014. A World Culture in African-American Music: the Struggle for Identity in the Ugandan Diaspora, at the inaugural conference on African-American music in world culture at Boston University, 21 March 2014.
Peter Hoesing 4 First Church of the Ancestors: Music and Religious Innovation in Uganda, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, 14 November 2013. Death of a Musoga Spirit Medium: Song, Space, and Social Responsibility, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 November 2012. History and Ethnography from the Healers Songs: Kinship and Kingdom in Buganda. Sacred Healing & Wholeness in Africa and the Americas, a symposium at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 13 April 2012. Performing Kusamira: The Shifting Visibility of Spiritual Healing in Southern Uganda, 1993-2010. Part of a panel I organized, Healing, Wellness, and Religion in East Africa: Modern Historical Perspectives, for the American Historical Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 18 January 2011. Music and Ritual in Southern Uganda: A Comparative Perspective, Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Los Angeles, California, 19 November 2010. Obulamu Bulungi: Spirit Possession and Social Harmony in Southern Uganda, American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 30 October 2010. Musical Diagnosis, Spiritual Etiology: The Social Reproduction of Wellness in Southern Uganda, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 17 November 2009. Welding Tradition and Technology: Ugandan Sounds in the American Studio, 3 rd International Symposium and Festival, Dialogue in Music Project: Africa Meets North America, University of California, Los Angeles, 20 October 2009. The Symbolic Utility of the Drum and the Spear in Interlacustrine Kingship, Society for Ethnomusicology 52 nd Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 19 November 2007. Kubandwa: Theory and Historiography of Shared Expressive Culture in Interlacustrine East Africa, Society for Ethnomusicology 51 st Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai i, November 2006. Regional Conferences Sound Medicine: Producing Relational Space, Reproducing Wellness, part of a panel I organized, Sound, Space, and Substance in Music and Ritual, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast-Caribbean Chapter annual meeting, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, 4-5 March 2016. Ethnography and the Ethics of Repatriation: A Methodological Field Report, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast-Caribbean Chapter annual meeting, Atlanta, 1 March 2013. Music and Dance of Kinship Ritual in Uganda and Its Diasporas: Research Methods and Motivations, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast-Caribbean Chapter annual meeting Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 9 March 2012.
Peter Hoesing 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Grinnell College Topics in American Music: Popular Music (Fall 2016) Music, Culture, and Context (Spring 2017) Sound Medicine: Music, Healing, and Culture (Spring 2017) Ugandan Music & Dance Ensemble (Fall 2017 and Spring 2017) Claflin University Introduction to World Music (Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015) Music History and Literature I: Antiquities-Baroque Period (Fall 2012 Spring 2015, every term) Music History and Literature II: Classical/Romantic Periods (Fall 2012 Spring 2015, every term) Music History and Literature III: 20 th /21 st Centuries (Fall 2012 Spring 2015, every term) Archival Research (Summer 2015, Makerere University, Uganda) Ethnographic Research Supervision (Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015) Music Appreciation (Fall 2012 Fall 2015, every term online, supervise campus faculty) Florida State University Graduate Survey of Music History (Spring 2012) African Music and Dance Ensemble (2009) Modern Popular Music (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008) World Music Cultures (Fall 2006, Spring 2007) Tallahassee Community College World Music Cultures (Fall 2007, Spring 2008) Music History Survey (Fall 2007, Spring 2008) ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2015 International Partnership for Choral Music Education (research consulting) Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa Archiving Africa: Critical Perspectives in Postcolonial Digital Humanities Makerere University Klaus Wachsmann Audivisual Archive, Kampala, Uganda 2014-present Orangeburg Musicians Integrative Community (MUSIC) Project 2011-2012 Interdisciplinary Research Associate, Florida State University Religion Department 2011-2012 Independent Research, Edward Ball State Park at Wakulla Springs 2010 Independent Museum Research, London and Oxford, United Kingdom British Museum Horniman Free Museum off-site Study Collections Center Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford University
Peter Hoesing 6 2008 Research Assistant, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography 2007 Curator and Photographer, Center for Music of the Americas, Photographic Archive Project, Florida State University 2006 Language student and field researcher, Institute of Languages, Makerere University (Uganda) 2003-2005 Research Assistant to senior colleagues Dale Olsen and Michael Bakan PERFORMANCE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES Musical Ensembles and Related Aptitudes 2012-present Intercollegiate faculty jazz combo (drum set) 2006-2012 Staff Singer, St. John s Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, Florida 2010-2012 Group and Private Lesson Instructor, Music Lessons Express (drums & piano) 2001-2010 Independent Contractor and Instructor, Groove Entertainment & Music Services 2005-2011 Private study of East African musical instruments 2009 Director, FSU African Music & Dance Ensemble 2004-2008 FSU African Music & Dance Ensemble 2006 FSU Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Balinese Gamelan 2003-2006 Cantores Musicae Antiquae and FSU Early Music Program Collaborations 2005 Individual and trio-based study of East African amadinda (xylophone) 2003-2005 FSU Salsa Florida Caribbean Salsa Ensemble Languages French: intermediate proficiency in reading; elementary proficiency in speaking/writing Luganda (East African Bantu language): comprehensive fluency in speaking/reading/writing Lusoga (shares partial mutual intelligibility with Luganda): elementary proficiency in speaking PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS American Association of University Professors (AAUP) American Folklore Society (AFS) African Studies Association (ASA) American Musicological Society (AMS) Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda (CBR): research affiliate Makerere University: multiple departments, 2006-present Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) SEM Southeast-Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) Uganda Society SERVICE Claflin University Music Department 2012-2016 Symposium on Popular Music (spring symposium in its second year)
Peter Hoesing 7 Recital Program Coordinator 2013-2014 National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Accreditation Review Library Collection Development Coordinator Percussion Collection Development Coordinator Communities and Professional Organizations 2015 Grant Panelist, Florida Dept. of State, Div. of Cultural Affairs, Traditional Arts 2014-2015 President, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) SEM African Music Section: Liaison to the African Studies Association 2014 Grant Panelist, South Carolina Arts Commission, Folk and Traditional Arts 2013-2014 Vice President and Program Committee Chair, SEMSEC Grant Panelist, Florida Dept. of State, Div. of Cultural Affairs, Traditional Arts 2006-2010 Grant Writing Consultant, Dorika Productions, Kampala, Uganda 2009 Grant Panelist, Tallahassee-Leon County Council on Culture and Arts (COCA) 2007-2008 President, FSU Society for Musicology 2006-2008 Curatorial Assistant and Gallery Volunteer, LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, Tallahassee, Florida 2006-2007 Web Coordinator, FSU Society for Musicology 2006 Drum set and Percussion Tutor, Watoto Church, Kampala, Uganda 2004-2006 President, FSU World Music Society References Jean Ngoya Kidula Professor of Ethnomusicology Hugh Hodgson School of Music University of Georgia Jennifer Kyker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Musicology Eastman School of Music University of Rochester Damascus Kafumbe, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Music Middlebury College Frank Gunderson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology College of Music Florida State University