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Gordon Ross Thompson
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Ethnomusicologist, educator, scholar, writer..., and Bapa. Studies sixties British pop & the musics of India.
I'm honored to have won this award.
2025 Awards for Excellence Winners
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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Nice reviews of my two-volume ethnography of 60s British pop
June 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm attending Indivisible ADK/Saratoga's event, “Wilton Mall-Saratoga: IAS No Kings T-shirt Distribution & Sign-making” - sign up www.mobilize.us/indivisiblea...
Wilton Mall-Saratoga: IAS No Kings T-shirt Distribution & Sign-making · Indivisible ADK/Saratoga
Come **make signs** to support the [Warrensburg NO KINGS protest](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/796486/) and **pick up your Indivisible ADK/Saratoga (IAS) NO KINGS t-shirts**. **If you will b...
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June 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A song a day to keep reality at bay...

Lonnie Donegan covers Huddie Ledbetter's "Rock Island Line" so closely that the two recordings are only seconds different in duration, albeit with Donegan's awkward attempt at imitating the American's iconic voice.

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1956 HITS ARCHIVE: Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
YouTube video by The45Prof
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February 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Being a dual citizen of Canada and the US has turned out to be awkward this week. How does one explain the coup that is currently underway? Or the threats of economic war? Or the assaults on color and gender identity? Will a new Gestapo show up at my door?
February 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
And here's a link to the interview with Amy Dodge, host of Windsor Morning on the CBC. Although we do talk about the book, she also wanted to play up my roots in Windsor.
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December 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Recorded an interview with the CBC this morning that will air next week.
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Winter bloom in my office.
December 7, 2024 at 5:52 PM
And, while I'm at it, here's a Q&A with Chuck Vosganian at Northshire Books, Saratoga Springs.
Northshire Presents: Gordon Ross Thompson with Chuck Vosganian on "Sixties British Pop, Outside In"
YouTube video by Northshire Bookstore
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December 3, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Here's part 1 of my interviews with Mark Lynch at WICN, Worchester, Mass.
Gordon Ross Thompson - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
British rock and pop in the 1960s became a force to be reckoned with. There were famous bands like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and artists like Lulu and Petulia Clark. Why did ...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I think we're closer.
December 3, 2024 at 8:41 PM
American Thanksgiving, à la neige
November 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM
"The ONLY guitars endorsed by President Donald J. Trump."

—claimed on Truth Social by Trump Guitars, which has received a cease-and-desist order alleging infringement on the design of Gibson's Les Paul
November 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM
And here's an interview that WAMC's Joe Donahue did with me about volume one of my book about sixties British pop music.
www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
Gordon Ross Thompson's "Sixties British Pop, Outside In: Volume 1: Downtown, 1956-1965”
British rock and pop in the 1960s became a force to be reckoned with. There were famous bands like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and artists like Lulu and Petula Clark. Why did t...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Pleased to announce the publication of my two-volume book on Sixties British Pop!
November 25, 2024 at 9:50 PM