Education
B.A. City College of New York (CUNY); M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professional Highlights
- Andrew completed his graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught courses in various theoretical and historical topics, including highly attended classes on the History of Rock Music, The Golden Age of Rhythm and Blues, The Music of the American Folk Revival, and the Music of Motown. During the academic year 2005-6, Andrew was a member of the Royster Society and was awarded the prestigious John Motley Morehead Fellowship to complete his doctoral dissertation, entitled "I Hear a Symphony: Making Music at Motown, 1959-1979," which was awarded the Glen Haydon Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology from the UNC Music Department. Andrew has read papers at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for American Music. He has also been invited to speak at the University of Surrey, Princeton University, the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory, the North Carolina meeting of Tanglewood II, the South Central Graduate Music Consortium, and the Cleveland Youth Orchestra and Progressive Arts Alliance. Andrew has written articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews on the music of Marvin Gaye, the Beatles, African American pop singers and balladeers, and Bang On a Can. His book, I Hear a Symphony: Listening to the Music of Motown, is forthcoming from The University of Michigan Press.