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Andy Fry joined King’s College London in 2007, after previously teaching at the University of California, San Diego. He has also held a visiting professorship at Berkeley. Fry completed his graduate studies at Oxford with a D.Phil. in 2004 and has studied at institutions including Lancaster, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania. His principal research areas include jazz, particularly focusing on the periods before 1960, race, gender, and historiography. His book, "Paris Blues: African American Music in France, 1920–1960" published by Chicago in 2014, reflects these interests, exploring the intersection of jazz and cultural history. Fry is currently engaged in research on the revival and recreation of New Orleans jazz in the United States and worldwide during the mid-twentieth century. He teaches various levels of jazz history and brings a rich academic background to his teaching, including modules on Post-war Jazz and Jazz Film, and offers a graduate seminar in Jazz Studies.
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