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Finding his academic voice: Flory rocks career studying Motown

Published on October 10, 2016

“Wonderful things happened during my years as a graduate student at UNC. Academically, I was in heaven.”

“Wonderful things happened during my years as a graduate student at UNC. Academically, I was in heaven.”

As a UNC doctoral student and Royster FellowOpens in new window in musicology, Andrew Flory assisted John Covach in his course on the history of rock music. They collaborated on What’s That Sound?—incubated at UNC— which has become the best-selling rock history textbook in the market. Now an assistant professor of music at Carleton College, Flory is an expert in rhythm and blues music and credits his Carolina experience for helping him find his academic voice.

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