Scholars@Duke
Thomas Brothers

Thomas Brothers

Professor of Music
Music
tdb@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
071 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors

Appointed Shastri by Shambhala International

International Shambhala International · November 2013

Visiting Artist Award ($12,000)

University Provost and Council of the Arts, Duke University · January 2010

Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009-2010

National John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation · November 2009 Field of Study: Folklore and Popular Culture More about this award

Fellow

National National Humanities Center · 2003

In the News

Published June 15, 2021
10 Books About Music from Duke Authors
Published April 21, 2015
Duke Alumna, Professor Cited by Pulitzer Committee
Published May 5, 2014
Thomas Brothers: Louis Armstrong's secret lessons from Judaism
Published April 3, 2014
Nasher event: Louis Armstrong was ahead of his time, when he could be
Published March 18, 2014
Thomas Brothers: ‘Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism’
Published February 28, 2014
Thomas Brothers charts Louis Armstrong’s peak creative period
Published February 28, 2014
Book review: Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism by Thomas Brothers
Published February 10, 2014
Thomas Brothers: How Louis Armstrong blew audiences away
Published February 10, 2014
Book Review: Louis Armstrong -- how he transformed American music
Published February 10, 2014
Thomas Brothers comments: Not everybody greeted the onset of Beatlemania with, 'Yeah yeah yeah!'