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PhD. Musicology
University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
Andrew Berish completed his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. A specialist in jazz and popular music, his primary scholarship investigates the ways that music represents and constructs American places. Mr. Berish teaches a range of twentieth-century American Studies courses that explore the relationship between music, literature, visual art and American history. He is currently working on a book, based on his dissertation research, titled Swinging Transcontinental: Race, Place, and Modernity in the music of the Big Bands. His article, “‘I Dream of Her and Avalon’: Sweet Jazz, Nostalgia, and the Construction of Musical Place” is currently under review at American Music, the journal of the Society for American Music. He has also published in Music & Letters and the online journal ECHO. Secondary interests include the nature of cultural hierarchies in American musical life during the Great Depression, the career of bandleader Charlie Barnet, and the ways audiences listen to and comprehend jazz.