Thomas Brothers

Thomas D. Brothers is an American musicologist, and professor at Duke University.^[1]

He graduated from University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude with B.A. in music, in 1979, from University of California, Berkeley with an M.A. in music, in 1982, and with a Ph.D. in music, in 1991.^[2]

Awards

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism)
2014 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for best book on American music (Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism)
2009 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
2003–2004 National Humanities Center Fellow
2001–2002 John Hope Franklin Institute Fellow, Duke University
1999–2000 Harvard Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Research Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence Italy

Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-521-55051-2
Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514046-0
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 978-0-393-33001-4
Artists, Writers, and Musicians: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World, Editors Michel-André Bossy, Thomas Brothers, John C. McEnroe, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 978-1-57356-154-9
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4
Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration, W. W. Norton and Company, 2018, ISBN 978-0-393-24623-0.

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^ "Thomas Brothers - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-04-29.