Andy Fry

Andy Fry joined King’s in 2007, having previously taught at the University of California, San Diego and, as a visiting professor, at Berkeley. He completed his graduate studies at Oxford, and has also studied at the Universities of Lancaster, California (Berkeley), and Pennsylvania. His principal research areas are Jazz (particularly pre-1950, race, gender, and historiography) and music in twentieth-century France. In addition, he has strong interests in musical theatre, in all its many forms. Several of these concerns come together in his published articles, on Josephine Baker, jazz, and black shows in interwar France. Fry has also spoken widely on such subjects at conferences and invited talks in Britain, the US, and occasionally further afield. As well as courses in Jazz, he teaches a module on Western Music and Race. He is completing a monograph on African-American Music and Musicians in Paris to 1960.

‘Over the Rainbow’ [Review article: Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity and The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity; Scott McMillin, The Musical as Drama], Cambridge Opera Journal (in press).

‘Re-thinking the Revue nègre: Black Musical Theatre in Interwar Paris’ in Western Music and Race, ed. Julie Brown (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 258–75.

Review: Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity by Paul Austerlitz, Music and Letters 88 (2007): 335–40.

Review: The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris, 1917–1929 by Roger Nichols, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 6/2 (2004)
http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume6-Issue2/reviews/fry.html  

‘Embodied Difference, Disembodied Same: The Black and White of Jazz in Interwar Paris’ in Musicology and Globalization, Proceedings of the International Congress of the Musicological Society of Japan, 2002 (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 2004): 305–9.

‘Du “jazz hot” à La Créole: Josephine Baker Sings Offenbach’, Cambridge Opera Journal 16 (2004): 43–76.

‘Beyond Le Boeuf: Interdisciplinary Rereadings of Jazz in France’ [Review article: William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars; Jody Blake, Le Tumulte noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930; Ludovic Tournès, New Orleans sur Seine: Histoire du jazz en France], Journal of the Royal Musical Association 128 (2003): 159–75.