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Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Gordon Thompson of Skidmore College explains the cultural and technological borrowing that made 60s British Invasion music possible and why its popularity is now multigenerational.
Dr. Thompson earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at UCLA and previously served as chair of Skidmore's music department. He is web editor for the Society for Asian Music and incoming newsletter editor for the Society for Ethnomusicology. Dr. Thompson is the author of Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out, and a forthcoming book called The Beatles in Process.
Want to learn even more? Read Dr. Thompson's post, Sixties British Pop in the Classroom, on the Oxford University Press blog.