Thomas D. Brothers is an American musicologist, and professor at Duke University.
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.
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 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, .
References
External links Thomas Brothers - W. W. Norton (publisher website) Personal page at the Duke University