Fred Hosken
Visiting Assistant Professor: Music Theory
Fred Hosken is a music theorist with special interests in the perception and cognition of rhythm, and in the analysis of recorded performances, with a research focus on popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Prior to joining SUNY Potsdam, Fred was Assistant Professor of Practice in Music Theory at Georgetown University where he taught core curriculum and a range of liberal arts courses that focused on the culturally situated analysis and interpretation of music. Additionally, he also taught pop music analysis as part of a degree-bearing course at the Patuxent Institution, a maximum-security correctional facility in Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Music Theory & Cognition from Northwestern University, having previously studied Musicology at Oxford (MSt) and King's College London (BMus).
He has published on the subjective experience of groove in Psychology of Music (2020), created and published research data sets of drum performances that capture the exact timing details of professional performances (2021), and has forthcoming articles that theorize rhythmic performances through the performers' vernacular language of "feel."