Thomas Brothers
Encyclopedia
Thomas D. Brothers is an American musicologist, and professor at Duke University
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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.
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
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He graduated from University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, magna cum laude with B.A. in Music, in 1979, from University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
with an M.A. in Music, in 1982, and with a Ph.D. in Music, in 1991.
Awards
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2003-2004 National Humanities CenterNational Humanities CenterThe National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. It is the only major independent institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities in the United States. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any...
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
- Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780195140460
- Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780521550512
- Louis Armstrong's New Orleans W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 9780393330014
- 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 9781573561549