Andrew Berish

Andrew Berish is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, serving as Undergraduate Director and Internship Coordinator in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies.

He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in History from Columbia University.

Dr. Berish specializes in the intersection of musical expression with the social experience of space and place, particularly in jazz and American popular music. His research examines how swing-era jazz and Tin Pan Alley songs reflect geographic and demographic transformations during the Great Depression and World War II, as well as ideologies of race and the cultural analysis of jazz. He also explores the phenomenon of jazz hating.

His publications include the monograph Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams (2012), which analyzes spatial and racial dynamics in 1930s–1940s jazz, and chapters in The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2018) and The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington (2015). He has also published in journals like Modernism/modernity and The Journal of the Society for American Music.