Thomas Brothers Explained

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

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, 2018, .

External links

• Thomas Brothers - W. W. Norton (publisher website)
• Personal page at the Duke University

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thomas Brothers – Musicologist.
2. Web site: Thomas Brothers.
3. Web site: Thomas Brothers - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-04-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622015128/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16599-thomas-brothers . 2011-06-22 .