Gordon Thompson: Papers

2018 "The Transfiguration of John Lennon: More Popular than Jesus, but Getting Better All the Time." Metamorpphosis: A Humanistic Inquirey Symposium. Saratoga Springs, New York (23 March).
2017 “Banning the Beatles: A Day in the Life at the BBC.”  Opening keynote speaker, Summit of Creativity: A Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Ann Arbor, Michigan (1 June).
2014 “Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles.”  Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles in Text and Image — Materiality and Meaning.  University of Pennsylvania (1 March).
2013 “Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles.”  Society for Ethnomusicology, Indianapolis, Indiana (14 November).
2012 “‘A Day in the Life’: The Beatles, the BBC, and Competing Constructions of Meaning.” Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans (3 November).
2011 “‘I Feel Fine’: Social, Musical, and Technological Dynamics in the Production of the Beatles.” The Global Popular Music Business: National Historical Perspectives, Joint conference hosted by Business History Unit, the London School of Economics and the Institute for Capitalising on Creativity, University of St Andrews, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland (24 February).
2009 “Response: Interdependence and Independence in South Asian Genre Cultures.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Mexico City, Mexico (20 November).
2007 “‘Within You without You’: George Harrison's Orientalist Vision.” New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (14 June).
2004 “Undermining Paradigms: Music and Culture as Critical Thinking.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Tucson, Arizona (6 November).
“Twist and Shout': British Beatles and American Roots.” Sienna College (12 March).
2003 “‘An English Kind of Equivalent’: Innovation and Tradition in Sixties British Songwriting.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Miami, Florida (5 October).
2002 “A Delhi in London: Networks, Ecology, and the Life of Music in a Sixties Pop Milieu.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, Colorado (24 October).
“Orientalist Rock.” Romantic Orientalism. University of Wales Conference Center, Gregynog, Powys (12 July).
2001 “Orientalist Rock.” Society for Ethnomusicology; Detroit, Michigan (26 October).
“Orientalist Rock.” New England Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusettes (31 March).
2000 “‘Let Me Take You Down’ . . . , to the Subdominant: Tools of the Establishment and Revealing the Establishment.” Beatles 2000: International Cross-disciplinary Conference. Jyväskylä, Finland (17 June).
1999 “‘Let Me Take You Down ’. . . , to the Subdominant: Tools of the Establishment and Revealing the Establishment.” Canadian Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario (20 March).
1995 “A Dhal or an Hour? The Role of Context in Gujarati Bhajan Performance.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, California (20 October).
  “Prabhati as a Dhal and a Raga.” Music College, Maharaja Sayajirao University; Vadodara, Gujarat, India (January).
1994 “Is There a Gujarati Way of Musical Thinking? Gujarati Kïrtankärs as Examples of Context-sensitive Responses in a South Asian Ethnomusicology.” Society for Ethnomusicology; Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October).
1993 “Music Culture of the New York, Capitol District South Asian Community.” New England Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology; Tufts University, Boston, Massachusettes (April). [With Gary Boas]
1992 “What’s in a Dhal? Evidence of Raga-like Stuctures in a Gujarati Little Tradition.” Society for Ethnomusicology; Bellevue, Washington (October).
1991 “The Man Bhatt and Man Bhatt Akhyan.” Performing Arts of India Atlas Project, Twentieth Annual Conference on South Asia; University of Wisconsin, Madison (October).
1989 “Music and Values.” The Society for Ethnomusicology; MIT, Cambridge, Massachusettes (October).
1988 “Music and Values.” The Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology; San Diego State University for (March).
1984 “An Ecology of Music in Western India.” The Society for Ethnomusicology; Santa Monica, California (October).
“Garba and Ras and the Gujaratis of Southern California.” Symposium on Asian Music in North America, UCLA (October). [With Medha Yodh]
1983 "The Carans of Western India: Singers or Reciters.” The Society for Ethnomusicology: Florida State University, Tallahassee (October).
"The Barots of Western India.” The Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology; UCLA (April).
1981 “South Asian Musical Values.” The Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology; UCLA (May).
1980 “Swing Rhythm.” The Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Loyola-Marymount College; Los Angeles (April).
1979 “Rhythmic Displacement in the Music of Ray Brown.” The Society for Ethnomusicology; Montreal (October).
“Performance Traditions of 'Georgia on My Mind'.” The Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology; UCLA (May).
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