Peter Dennee

Peter Dennee is Professor of Music at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Dr. Dennee teaches courses in music education, global musics, listening, and musicking for health and wellness. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania (2020–2021) where he taught within the music department at Tumaini University Makumira and conducted field research recording the music of three indigenous groups in north-central Tanzania—the Chagga, Maasai, and Meru. Dr. Dennee has led sociocultural tours—focusing on interactions with community leaders, community members, and culture bearers—with Carthage students and high school students to Botswana, England, Germany, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Qatar, and Zimbabwe. Since 2010, he has worked with the Oonte Centre for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ondangwa, Namibia, completing service-learning projects, working with the children’s choir, and raising funds to support the Centre, which serves over 600 children daily. His current research interests include the neuroscience of music listening as it relates to music cognition in teaching and learning, and connecting virtue ethics and music listening to character development among adolescents. His most recent project is focused on the development of the Intentional Listening Protocol (ILP)—a neuroscience- and philosophy-informed sequence of guiding experiences in music listening in the classroom, in healthcare settings, and as a protocol for research.