Andrew Berish is an Associate Professor in the Humanities and Cultural Studies Department at the University of South Florida. His book, Hating Jazz: A History of its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2025. 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), a study of big band dance music during the Great Depression and Second World War. He has published articles on singer Vaughn Monroe, 1930s “sweet” jazz, and guitarist Django Reinhardt. His research focuses topics in jazz and American popular music and their relationship to 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. Sometimes he thinks he is funny and publishes satire in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.