Thomas D. Brothers is an American musicologist, and professor at Duke University.
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.
2009 Guggenheim Fellowship2003-2004 National Humanities Center Fellow2001-2002 John Hope Franklin Institute Fellow, Duke University1999-2000 Harvard Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Research Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence ItalyLouis Armstrong In His Own Words, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514046-0Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-521-55051-2Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 978-0-393-33001-4Artists, 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 978-1-57356-154-9Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4 