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Thomas BrothersThomas Brothers

Title: Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Music
Office Location: 071 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone: +1 919 660 3309
Email Address: tdb@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~tdb/
Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Education

  • PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1991
  • M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1982
  • B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1979

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2003
  • Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, 2001-2002
  • Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti, Research Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, 1999 - 2000
  • Junior Faculty Research Leave, Duke University, Fall 1994
  • "AMS 50" Dissertation Fellow, 1989 - 1990
  • Gabriel Charlebois Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
  • Passed Comprehensive Exams for Ph.D. with Distinction, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
  • Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1987
  • Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1980

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • Music 155s.01, Mus hst i: to 1650 Synopsis
    Biddle 069, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • Music 227.01, Music 20th century (top) Synopsis
    Biddle 069, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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    Books
  •  Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. 2006 .
    Articles
  • "Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26." MS Chantilly 564  (2007).
  • T. Brothers. "“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”."   (2007).  [author's comments]
    Reviews
  •  All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal  (forthcoming).
  • T. Brothers, Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee. Journal of the American Musicological Society fall 2006 (2007): 747-754.

   Other Activities:

  • Editorial board member for Black Music Research Journal, 2004-present

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