Thomas Brothers

Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1991
• M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1982
• B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1979

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Appointed Shastri by Shambhala International, Shambhala International, November 2013
• 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, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009-2010
• Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 2003
• 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 2024):

• Music 255s.01, Music history i Synopsis

  Biddle 101, MWF 03:20 PM-04:10 PM

• Music 790s-1.01, Sem hst of mus (topics) Synopsis

  Biddle 069, F 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• Brothers, T. Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration.  W. W. Norton & Company, October, 2018 (368 pages pp.).  [abs]
• Brothers, T. Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism.  W. W. Norton, 2014 .  [author's comments]

• Brothers, T. "Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach." Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies xv.1 (2009).  [author's comments]
• Brothers, T. "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.
• Brothers, T. "“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 Studies in Jazz no. 58 (2008).

   Other Activities:

• Thomas Brothers: Performances, 1991 - 1993, 1993/01/01
  with Thomas Brothers