Thomas D. Brothers is an American
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
, and professor at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
.
He graduated from
University of Pennsylvania
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, magna cum laude with B.A. in music, in 1979, from
University of California, Berkeley
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with an M.A. in music, in 1982, and with a Ph.D. in music, in 1991.
Awards
* Finalist for the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...
(''Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism'')
* 2014 Irving Lowens Book Award from the
Society for American Music
The Society for American Music (SAM) was founded in 1975 and was first named the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library of Congress and pioneer scholar of American music. The S ...
for best book on American music (''Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism'')
* 2009
Guggenheim Fellowship
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* 2003–2004
National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (NHC) is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any university or federal agency. The center was planned under the auspi ...
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
Works
''Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals''Cambridge University Press, 1997,
''Louis Armstrong In His Own Words'' Oxford University Press, 2001,
* ''Louis Armstrong's New Orleans'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2007,
''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,
* ''Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2014,
* ''Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration'',
W. W. Norton and Company
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, 2018, .
References
External links
Thomas Brothers - W. W. Norton(publisher website)
Personal page at the Duke University
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American musicologists
Duke University faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people