Andrew Berish - Studio Sessions Conversations

Andrew Berish is an Associate Professor who holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His book, Hating Jazz: A History of its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse (University of Chicago Press) is now available. He is also the author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s (University of Chicago Press, 2012). His essay on Space and Place in jazz is part of the Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (Routledge, 2019). He has published articles on singer Vaughn Monroe, 1930s “sweet” jazz, and guitarist Django Reinhardt (Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of the Society for American Music and Jazz Perspectives). An essay on Duke Ellington in the 1930s appears in the Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Ed Green (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His research focuses topics in jazz and American popular music and their relationship issues of taste, aesthetics, and race. He teaches courses on American culture of the 1930s and ’40s, jazz and civil rights, the analysis of popular music, and the role of place and mobility in American historical experience.