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Thomas BrothersThomas Brothers

Title: Professor of Music
Office Location: 071 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone: (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

  • Visiting Artist Award ($12,000), Provost and Council of the Arts, Duke University, January, 2010
  • Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009-2010, 2009-2010
  • 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 (Spring 2012):

  • Music 146.01, Meet the beatles and the 1960s Synopsis
    Biddle 101, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
  • Music 155s.01, Mus hst i: to 1650 Synopsis
    Biddle 069, MWF 11:55 AM-12:45 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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    Articles
  • T. Brothers. "Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach." Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies xv.1 (2009).  [author's comments]
  • T. Brothers. "Blues et Jazz." La Revue du Jazz Authentique Oct 2008; Nov 2008.574-575 (2008): 8-11; 10-12.
    Articles in Books
  • T. Brothers. "“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”." Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz and Other Popular Traditions. Edited by Howard Weiner. Scarecrow Press, Studies in Jazz no. 58 2008.
    Reviews
  •  Review of How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass by Dick Spottswood and Steven Ledbetter. Journal of the Society for American Music 2:1 (February, 2008): 119-121.
  •  All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal 2:1 (February, 2007): 119-121.


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