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, ISBN 978-0-521-55051-2
• Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514046-0
• Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 978-0-393-33001-4
• 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 978-1-57356-154-9
• Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4
• Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration, W. W. Norton and Company, 2018, ISBN 978-0-393-24623-0.