Thomas D. Brothers is an American

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

, and professor at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. He graduated from

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, magna cum laude with B.A. in music, in 1979, from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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 annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author." Award winners receive ...

(''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 Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* 2003–2004

National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (NHC) is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any uni ...

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
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