Eric Fillion

Eric Fillion is adjunct professor and Buchanan postdoctoral fellow in Canadian history at Queen’s University. As a musician turned educator and scholar, he focuses in his work on exploring the interplay between culture and politics, and he does so by situating Quebec and Canada in the broader world in which this relationship unfolds. He is the author of JAZZ LIBRE et la révolution québécoise: Musique-action, 1967-1975 (2019) and Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy (2022). His next book, Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (co-edited with Sean Mills and Désirée Rochat), will be published in September 2023 through McGill-Queen’s University Press. These works build on the experience he has acquired as a musician playing drums with Montreal-based bands in various studios and on international stages. Eric Fillion is also the founder of the Tenzier non-profit archival record label and co-editor of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation. His current research projects examine the emergence of the music festival phenomenon in Canada and the entangled sonic histories of diasporic social movements.