dr Jack Harrison
Department of North American Cultures and Literatures
research fellow
email: j.harrison@uw.edu.pl
Wednesdays 15.30-16.30
Degrees
BA in Music, University of Cambridge, 2012
MMus in Advanced Musical Studies (Ethnomusicology Pathway), Royal Holloway: University of London, 2014
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto, 2021
Research interests and projects
- Music, sound, and society
- Human-animal studies
- Environmental humanities
- Multispecies ethnomusicology
- Music in sport
- Dance
- Film music
Selected publications
Chapters
Harrison, J. (Forthcoming). ‘“Public Enemy Number One!”: Music and Mosquito Sound in Disney’s The Winged Scourge (1943)’. In Beyond the Human Voice: Dystopian Soundscapes in the Arts, edited by Martin Ullrich and Susanne Rode-Breymann. Cultural Animal Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler.
Harrison, J. (Forthcoming). ‘Musicking with the Enemy: Mosquito Agency, Control, and Representation on Film’. In Re-Thinking Agency: Non-Anthropocentric Approaches, edited by Paweł Piszczatowski. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage.
Articles
Harrison, J. (2020). ‘From the Horse’s Mouth: Musical “Originality” in Freestyle Dressage.’ Ethnomusicology Forum 29 (2): 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2020.1831395.
Harrison, J. and Kruszona, S. (Forthcoming). ‘“The Way of Disc Dog”: Navigating Harmonies in American Canine Frisbee’. European Journal of American Studies.
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Other
Jack is a postdoctoral research fellow and a member of the Institute’s “Figurations of Interspecies Harmony” research team. His scholarship sits at the intersection of music and animal studies and explores what might be revealed about music’s relationship to sociality when society is framed in terms of multispecies entanglements. Before moving to Warsaw in 2021, Jack studied at the University of Toronto where he completed his PhD in ethnomusicology. His doctoral dissertation examines how rhythm, melody, choreographic form and musical recordings help to configure horse–human, dog–human, and human–human relations in British interspecies sports. His current work explores how ideas about music shape and are shaped by discourses on ideal more-than-human relations, including relations between humans and mosquitoes and between humans and coyotes in the US.